vocabulary

[iceman887]

i was wondering about people like graviton and chruser and raziel, and other people. you all seem to know a lot of vocabulary and like did yall study or read a lot of books to know it or what???????

[uncapped]

No, they passed 5th grade.

[Doofus_AW]

No, they passed 5th grade.

LMFAO :D

[Raziel]

I take pride in having an advanced grasp of the english language. I take offense at seeing people butcher it in situations that don't warrant sloppiness.

[!King_Amazon!]

Wow I couldn't help but crack up at that statement uncapped.

[EX-Mania]

I can use a really advanced vocabulary but it takes too long and makes me look geeky.

This doesn't apply to every situation but a saying says:

The simplest explanation is the best explanation

Don't know where the quote comes from but it's true.. especially over the internet where typing gets boring when you have something so big to type and in a hurry at the same time.

[iceman887]

were you makign fun or me?? but anyways raziel did you study to know words or do you just like know them

[Senesia]

Practise using the vocabs you learned when suitable.

[iceman887]

ok but like if i try it makes me look weird when i right because i right all these common words with just a few good ones

[!King_Amazon!]

write*

[Grav]

I can use a really advanced vocabulary but it takes too long and makes me look geeky.


Geeky? Claiming to be a reefer is 'geeky' in my eyes, not taking time to write something coherant.

[Titusfied]

You shouldn't really have to "take time" to make a post that makes grammatical sense with the usage of big words. If you talk that way, you write that way. If you don't, well, you don't and trying to WILL make you look and sound stupid.

[Grav]

It usually doesn't take me more than 15 seconds to reply to something, unless it is some huge overblown reply about, oh, socks.

[!King_Amazon!]

I don't spend too much time on my posts, but I don't use big words that often either. Still, my posts are readable.

[zagggon]

im way to lazy to take the time to satisfy you guys lust for perfection in posts.

[Silverjinx18]

I agree w/ zaggon...I don't really care to take the time...I mean if you get it you get it and if you don't you don't ... so what if I didn't put a better word in for a lame one or a coma where it needs to go...

[quikspy67]

I can use a really advanced vocabulary but it takes too long and makes me look geeky.

This doesn't apply to every situation but a saying says:

The simplest explanation is the best explanation

Don't know where the quote comes from but it's true.. especially over the internet where typing gets boring when you have something so big to type and in a hurry at the same time.

Yeah like Raizel he takes sweet time out of his meaningless life typing insults using advanced vocabulary about people with less IQ than 100 (We have feeling too! :'C)!

[!King_Amazon!]

If your IQ is below 100, you're just a dumbass.

[Senesia]

Actually iceman887 isn't talking about grammatical errors, sentence perfection or coherency here.

He was asking how people could be comfortable with using advanced vocabulary in their posts.

I don't mind seeing people using simple words all the time. (I being one of them :p) Things I couldn't stand are incoherent posts.

[!King_Amazon!]

You really have a problem with your tenses senesia. You had this same problem on AIM. The correct way to write that sentence would be...

Things I can't stand are incoherent posts.

OR

Things I couldn't stand were incoherent posts.

It's incorrect because...

Things I couldn't(past) stand are(present) incoherent posts.

And no, I'm not wrong.

[Senesia]

I'd have to use my excuse then. English isn't my first language, but I try and make my post coherent.

I did mention I'm not after sentence perfection.

[!King_Amazon!]

That is no excuse. IT HAS TO BE PERFECT!

[iceman887]

i could careless on how people type on their post and like chat i was talking about like real life since i am like a horrible writer and english is my worst subject. i never get A's any more and on the writing essay things i get liek 70's but besides that in 2005 the SAT is gonna have like half of its test with writing and already i dont even know many of the meanings of the words in the test so its gonna suck

[Eddie_Perez]

Is english your first language? If so, how old are you and what grade are you in?

[iceman887]

if i am asian and i learned english first, wouldn't that make it my first language?? , im 14 and im going into 10th

[!King_Amazon!]

If you learned english first, it's your first language.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

I am too lazy to read that crap. Just go to webster.com and sign up for the Word Of The Day or something if you want.
Or study harder in school, also, read some Tom Clancy. His advanced writing styles should help your mind progress to a suitable nature.

[zagggon]

who gives a shit if ppl misspell stuff every once in a while

[Doofus_AW]

who gives a shit if ppl misspell stuff every once in a while

Silence Pinhead...


The best way to advnce your vocabulary is to READ! Read something every night before you go to bed, and every other chance you get.

[!King_Amazon!]

We're on a forum. I'm sure people here do a lot of reading(at least on the forum.)

But I guess reading posts like Raziels and then posts like Zagggons kinda counter's the effect.

[Silverjinx18]

You really have a problem with your tenses senesia. You had this same problem on AIM. The correct way to write that sentence would be...

Things I can't stand are incoherent posts.

OR

Things I couldn't stand were incoherent posts.

It's incorrect because...

Things I couldn't(past) stand are(present) incoherent posts.

And no, I'm not wrong.

I'm not very good w/ this as well...I'm always being told by my film teacher to not make a story past and present...choose one or the other :( I'll never be a write !!! :cry: eh who cares... I'll just get someone to do it for me :)

[Senesia]

Well, the word "could" doesn't have to describe "can" in the past.

It can be used to show one's uncertainty.

For example....It could be months before Blizzard release their 1.10 patch for Diablo2.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

Well, the word "could" doesn't have to describe "can" in the past.

It can be used to show one's uncertainty.

For example....It could be months before Blizzard release their 1.10 patch for Diablo2.
Not that I care, but I am trying to keep busy right now because I found something out about someone that I love that I gotta get my mind off of.
Anyway, so you were uncertain whether or not you could stand the posts labeled as "incoherent"?

[Strider Fury]

if i am asian and i learned english first, wouldn't that make it my first language?? , im 14 and im going into 10th

then you are just a disgrace.:)

[Senesia]

For example....It could be months before Blizzard release their 1.10 patch for Diablo2.
Not that I care, but I am trying to keep busy right now because I found something out about someone that I love that I gotta get my mind off of.
Anyway, so you were uncertain whether or not you could stand the posts labeled as "incoherent"?

No, I admit that I made the mistake, just saying the word "could" doesn't have to describe "can" in the past.

[!King_Amazon!]

I was right and that's all that matters.

[Titusfied]

AHHHHHHH, how come a lot of threads have been getting mad posts in them lately? Its killing me! I miss like 10 hours, then bam, I gotta read like 40 posts just to get caught up... :(

Oh well, as long as we can read it, its fine. A little sprucing up though never hurt anyone. :)

[DaFrigginDoctah]

It's because you've missed 10 hours.

[Titusfied]

Ooooohhhh! Thanks for clearing that up.

[!King_Amazon!]

It use to be more active then this, so for you this should be nothing. I use to go away for like 24 hours and come back to ~350 new posts.

[Titusfied]

Yeah, but before, I was at my internship, and always next to a computer. There was a lot of downtime there, so I never really saw more than 20 new posts or so, at least from October - March that is.

[Doofus_AW]

We're on a forum. I'm sure people here do a lot of reading(at least on the forum.)

But I guess reading posts like Raziels and then posts like Zagggons kinda counter's the effect.

Umm yea... read a BOOK you goofball :cool:

[platnum]

take latin, it has advanced my vocabulary because alot of english comes from latin(my teacher makes us look in the dictionary for derivatives of latin words). i dont use the big words i learn online, but they come in handy for essays and such.

[iceman887]

oic but strider i was born in america and so i learned english when i was little and i didnt learn much of my language but i still know it

[!King_Amazon!]

What does "Ho Chi Men" mean?

[Titusfied]

Umm yea... read a BOOK you goofball :cool:

What is this "BOOK" thing you speak of?

[!King_Amazon!]

Binary On-Off Keying.

[Titusfied]

Big Ole Oddly-shaped Keyster.

[Doofus_AW]

Bimbo Of Oral Kapacity :haha:

[!King_Amazon!]

That would be BOK, and you're a dumbass.

[Titusfied]

No, actually it would be BOOK in this case. There is no grammatical rule that states prepositions can't be in accronyms.

[!King_Amazon!]

Kapacity isn't a word though.

[Eddie_Perez]

Yup... out teacher is gay, he makes us read. And makes us do reading logs like fuking 7th graders. We have to give him this log of 12 sessions of 30minute readings. ITS GAY!!!! THATS WHY HALF THE CLASS IS FAILING HIM!

[Kuja`s #1]

I listen to books on tape because of my eye problem. This screws me up because I hear great words except I can't spell them right.

[!King_Amazon!]

Have you ever thought about getting glasses?

[Titusfied]

Haha, I doubt that is the problem, he probably has some degenerate form of an eye disease or something. I actually have no idea, but if glasses were the cure, he deserve to die a slow, painful death.

Anyway, yeah, Kapacity isn't a word, but it did fit for his purposes, and he did get the point across. I don't really think words like "Xillarama" are spelled that way either, but they get the point across and people understand it.

EDIT: BTW, Xillarama was a small amusement park where I live, but it is gone now.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

I once knew a girl names Oral-Kapacity...

[Doofus_AW]

Kapacity isn't a word though.

It was a JOKE dipshit :)

[uncapped]

Jovial onions kiling everyone?

[Kuja`s #1]

I think kuja goes to the school I teach. I have a student in my fifth period Algebra class with a visual impairment. I'll ask him tommorow.

[!King_Amazon!]

Hahaha you've got a complete moron in your class.

[Kuja`s #1]

He's got a C now. All depends on the final. I'm pretty sure its him from his sig. He loves poems, especially haikus.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

Please hit him with a ruler or a machetti or something if it is.

[Kuja`s #1]

I'll take it into consideration. He's caused lots of problems this year. He has been suspended six times. All for excessive talking. The last time however, he got into a fight.

[!King_Amazon!]

Did he put a virus on the school computer and pull the fire alarm?

Is he 14?

[Xenn]

Why do I get the distinct feeling that "the teach" isn't an actual teacher? Maybe it's because forum people are notorious for coming up with fictional identities :/

Take that, English language!

[Kuja`s #1]

He's fourteen. He repeatedly denies pulling the alarm and the virus issue wasn't solved.

[!King_Amazon!]

Xenn, can I request you check his IP and see if it matches anyone elses on this forum?

[ask_rabber]

Xenn, can I request you check his IP and see if it matches anyone elses on this forum?

Well, as long as this is a gramatically correct thread, it would be "Xenn, may I request you check his IP and see if it matches anyone elses on this forum?".

[Xenn]

LOL my guess was right!

Our recently departed kuja matches someone in this thread..

[!King_Amazon!]

Ask_Rabber, this isn't a "Gramatically correct thread" it's a "Vocabulary thread."

[Kuja`s #1]

GO TO GENERAL CONVERSATION.

[ask_rabber]

ay ay, but you were making it one, correcting senesia and what not :P

[!King_Amazon!]

I was trying to help her since she's made the same mistake before on AIM while talking to me.

Someone please ban me.

[zagggon]

kuja did all that?! way to go

[Kuja`s #1]

Yes. I don't think he's telling the truth. He didn't know I was kuja. Or maybe he did. So what now. Right?

[!King_Amazon!]

I didn't know it when you first came on that name, but I've been suspecting it for a while.

[Kuja`s #1]

Your not as dumb as you sometimes sound. But then we all sound like dumbasses sometime in our lives.

[Titusfied]

Someone please ban me.

Me too... :(

[iceman887]

wait so the teach is kuja and not a real teacher?

[!King_Amazon!]

You are correct.