My Brother: "Dude why do you always use 'Big Words' when you talk!"

[sasquatch]

Me: "What the hell are you talking about?"
Brother: "Dude you use words now that nobody knows what they mean whenever you talk about something."
Me: "Dude, 'Cop Out' is not a big word!"
Brother: "Yeah it is, you used a big word last week too! What do you do read a dictionary everynight!? What was that word you used last week?"
Me: "Carte Blanche"
Brother: "Yeah that's it."
:eyes:
I then went into another room and watched the "Velluchi Papers" while he sat next to his pregnant wife knowing that the kid will probably be cuter than a button, but dumber than a rock.
:(
I think I should call DCF so the kid will be taken away and will have a chance in this world.
On Edit: Spelling, I'm very poor speller in French.

[MrSlayer]

1. He'd have fun talking to me.

Especially now that I'm in full Deadwood mode.

[Race4Peace]

2. 'small words' bore you?

perhaps you can give him a pocket thesaurus/dictionary before the kid is born.:shrug:

[sasquatch]

7. Or have the kid raised by a professor

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Perhaps his next birthday gift should be a dictionary?

:shrug:

[sasquatch]

4. Or maybe a "Improve you vocabulary tape"

Like the won they sent Homer Simpson.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. I hope you really didn't say "Carpe Blanche"?

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

8. Why did I miss spell it?

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. It's "carte blanche" (i.e., a blank ticket - think "blank check")

You didn't misspell it. You mispronounced it. Lucky your brother doesn't like big words.

[sasquatch]

11. No I pronounced it right I just misspelled it

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Not if you actually said "sieze the white" in two different languages.

[jobycom]

14. Just hope his sister-in-law's name isn't Blanche.

:shrug:

[sasquatch]

15. My sister-in-law is a fundie BTW

[jobycom]

17. Still no excuse to go Carpe her. nt.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Seize Ms. DuBois?

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. 'Carpe blanche'?

:shrug:

[sasquatch]

13. Oops, spelling

:blush:

[pitohui]

12. "because i'm smarter than you, dude"

even if i didn't say it, i'd be thinking it

[antigone382]

18. I once got the same crap in HS for saying "therefore"

I never realized the word "therefore" was so esoteric.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

19. I get that all the time.

Hey, "ubiquitous" is a kick-ass word!

:D

[struggle4progress]

20. With practice, you could learn to talk to him in words of one syllable.

For added effect you could talk slowly and a little louder than necessary.

Then when he finally got sick of this and complained, you could explode that he don't like you to use big words, he don't like you to use small words, there's no way to keep him happy

[mzteris]

21. first hubby used to say to me

"you're not really all that smart, you know. You just know a lot of big words."


:eyes:

[Solon]

22. I assume that is one reason why you are no longer married to him?

I can never understand our loved ones PUTTING US down when we should always be encouraged to improve ourselves. Assholes everywhere, and many hid that assholiness till its almost too late.

[mzteris]

24. well - let's just say that

@ssholed-ness (like that word? :D) in general WAS an issue.

[Solon]

25. Yeah, I like it...

Don't know how to say it, but I like it. Isn't that one of those "Big Words"? :D

But seriously, I really don't understand assholes in general, I mean, hell, I'm the type of guy who prefers a woman who can use big words. I get complaints about my use of big words all the time, I have even been told the EXACT same thing your ex said to you.

[txwhitedove]

23. I too have an ex who asked me why the use of big words...

and why didn't I just scream and cuss like everybody else? Huh? Because it f*g didn't make any f*g sense,
gave me a f*g headace.

[hiro]

26. Back in high school...

I was talking about a dictionary (I think the specific topic was Noah Webster) and a girl in my history class interrupted me and said the same thing-- "Stop using those big words!"

Oh please...

-H.