Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 13:23     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Memorabilia
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 15:38     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
methodologies
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 15:32     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Onus
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 15:07     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
I like hearing people use these words and I don't understand why it bothers others but I am well aware it does so I curtail my speech when needed. Sometimes when a $5 word is all you can think of and you are mentally trying to dumb down your speech you end up using a $10 word. I think it's a bigger issue for people who speak multiple languages because the big English word is the more common cognate in the other language.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 15:01     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:kerfuffle

I say this often and get made fun of haha.

I don't think it sounds sophisticated, more like, old british granny


I think it makes you sound like Dr. Seuss.


OMG! I just read this at work and laughed super loud and now they know I'm not working 🙃
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 15:01     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 to dialectic
Benzodiazepine
inflection point
finance (with the accent on the second syLLAble)


How often does this one come up?

"Everything came second to the benzos..."
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:48     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Libations
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:32     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Umbrage
Hubris
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:25     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:+1 to dialectic
Benzodiazepine
inflection point
finance (with the accent on the second syLLAble)


How often does this one come up?
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:25     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:Ballet (with the accent on the FIRST syllable)


Just like in Center Stage! The BAllet
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:24     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
sophistry
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:23     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:British accents make everything sound fancy to me. I like they way they say secretary, laboratory, observatory, etc.


This is my theory as to why most people get further/farther wrong. They like the way further sounds (because it's more British) but generally they mean farther.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:21     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
copacetic
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:21     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Pardon instead of "what"
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:20     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:Not just a word:

"Sorry, I was inconsiderate and did not see things from your perspective. I apologize."