Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 10:43     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"


This sounds pretentious when Americans say it. A co-worker said it not too long ago and she sounded ridiculous.


Even worse is if an American says “I was in hospital” or “When I was in university…”
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 10:41     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:Sic transit gloria mundi.
anything in Latin


So you use “c.v.” instead of resume?
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 10:37     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"


This sounds pretentious when Americans say it. A co-worker said it not too long ago and she sounded ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 09:58     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
females
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 09:22     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
loquacious
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 08:59     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:55     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
optics
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:54     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
cohort
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:42     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Adjacent
Obtuse
Acute
Vector
Equilateral
Calculus
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:39     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Orthogonal

Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:39     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:

Victorian sponge

Bakers often make Victorian sponge cakes on The Great British Baking Show and they just sound so -- posh.


It’s Victoria sponge.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:35     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Not just a word:

"Sorry, I was inconsiderate and did not see things from your perspective. I apologize."
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:30     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Sic transit gloria mundi.
anything in Latin
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 07:08     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
touché
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 00:56     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Acquiesce, sanctimonious, compunction, or penultimate