Carpe Mortem

I get pretty annoyed any time high diction is used in casual conversation. Shove a crumpet up your ass, buzz kill, we're trying to get drunk and over analyze burritos.

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The Batlord

We can't all be Detroit trailer folk.

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Carpe Mortem

We don't all have the desire to talk ALL THE ****ING TIME. JESUS BATLORD. Are you even really a dude?

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Key

Is this a serious question?

Mondo Bungle

When I talk I regularly use fairly "high diction", and I can't help that. I might have this weird disorder where I don't like sounding like a moron though. That and I have friends that know what I'm saying.

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Key

Well, you could'a fooled me.

Frownland

I say what I mean and if that requires high diction, so be it.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Mondo Bungle

I say what I don't mean

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Carpe Mortem

That was half a serious question and half a way to crack myself up.

On the real though I hang with STEM folks, not history majors. I generally find their slang-ridden explanations and skills more impressive than some college kid regurgitating a thesaurus. Not to mention more bearable on the ears.

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The Batlord

I get that, but I have a history of slumming with idiots who look at me sideways if I say anything remotely intellectual. I was once interrupted during a political discussion when one guy said, "You use big words". The big word I used was "constituents". If you're intimidated by the word "constituents", then you need to read more books.

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