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⌈ Secret Post #2729 ⌋

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[killer is dead]

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[Lackadaisy]

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[Joe Trohman, Fall Out Boy]

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[Yowamushi Pedal]

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[How To Train Your Dragon 2]

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[A Game of Thrones]

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[Fruit's Basket]

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[Community]

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[Rythian, a.k.a Joakim Hellstrand]

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[The Devil Wears Prada]

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[Night Court]

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Thinking you can make yourself sound better by adding odd words and phrases into conversation. I have that sort of stuff done to me all the time and it is so aggravating.

Affecting colloqialisms from other places. You're from the North East United States, you sound stupid saying words like "Head" "Mate" "Taters" (super exaggerated taaaayyy-tERs). By stealing words from the South, British English and Australian English you only come across as trying WAY too hard to be cool. That little pause while you wait for someone to ask what "Head" or "Watercloset" mean when you say you're going to look for one as you get up from the table at a restaurant is also very obvious.

Likewise making up your own words for things. It's the internet. Stop calling it the interconnect. Especially with that stupid little grin like you're waiting for a fond laugh track.

Also excessive use of jargon; very job specific jargon so everyone has to ask you what the words and random series of numbers and code names mean every other sentence. You don't sound intelligent, you sound like an ass trying to sound intelligent.

And just using "big" words incorrectly.

Affecting colloqialisms from other places. You're from the North East United States, you sound stupid saying words like "Head" "Mate" "Taters" (super exaggerated taaaayyy-tERs). By stealing words from the South, British English and Australian English you only come across as trying WAY too hard to be cool. That little pause while you wait for someone to ask what "Head" or "Watercloset" mean when you say you're going to look for one as you get up from the table at a restaurant is also very obvious.

Definitely this.

What I hate even more is when people try to affect an accent/vocabulary/way of speaking to suggest a geographical area to be cute and then get it flat out wrong. "No, people in Wisconsin do not sound like they are some kind of New Jersey stereotype. I don't even know why you'd think that. You just assumed people in Wisconsin talk funny because 'LOL, Wisconsin' and you just ran with the first 'funny' accent you could think of. That's kind of a dumb thing to do in front of someone who just told you she lives there."

I use a lot of those "quirky" words in my speech, some foreign and some outdated. a lot. I don't realize I'm doing it. I didn't even know taters was a non-American regional word? I grew up saying that and everybody in my family says it lol. Many words have been permanently engraved into my lexicon from so much exposure from books and tv and subculture so they are natural for me and I'm not saying them to be cool.

But I'm not trying to argue you or anything because I agree with you.

SA

I'm laughing so hard because I just realized I used the word "lexicon" oh my god does that count as a big word?

What if you've lived all over the place and just happened to pick up a few local words?

Since when is it out of the ordinary for people in the Northeast to use the term "head" to refer to the bathroom?

I thought that was a Navy expression. I used to live in the northeast and i only ever heard Navy guys say it.

I dunno, I use a lot of words/expressions that have people at work looking at me funny because they've never heard it (like yesterday a co-worker who'd never heard the expression "would you jump in my grave as fast?").

I don't say them to be funny or special, I say them because it's what I grew up saying. I have an English father and constant exposure to his sayings/his side of the family just ingrains them into my head.

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