Hedging the wheel

Overnight said:
Just wanted to mention that you have posted a word in a context that nearly nobody in this thread understood. Stop exfoliating your elder lexicon usage onto the masses. Waste of talent.
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Sir, this is NOT a Wendy's.


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BlueWaterSailor said:
Sir, this is NOT a Wendy's.


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No no, it means exactly what I know it means. You are scraping off obscure usages of words onto the audience, and I am saying it is a waste of time here. Except for dest. Hell, he used a fun word somewhere in one of these threads recently that even I had to look up, but never got around to it.
 
Overnight said:
No no, it means exactly what I know it means. You are scraping off obscure usages of words onto the audience, and I am saying it is a waste of time here.
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I thought you knew me better than that, ON. I talk how I talk... although I do pay some attention to the audience, I like precision in communication. No, I'm not showing off - gawd, what a baroque idea that is - but simply using the right word in the right place. Otherwise, I could have just referred to the OP as an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte [1]. Instead, I kept to the subject matter. Besides... since when is "a gross" any more obscure than "a dozen"???

You also missed the earlier use of that word in this thread which makes this usage doubly appropriate.

[1] OK, fine - I stole that from elsewhere. But I actually know what each of them means, so...
 
BlueWaterSailor said:
I thought you knew me better than that, ON. I talk how I talk... although I do pay some attention to the audience, I like precision in communication. No, I'm not showing off - gawd, what a baroque idea that is - but simply using the right word in the right place. Otherwise, I could have just referred to the OP as an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte [1]. Instead, I kept to the subject matter. Besides... since when is "a gross" any more obscure than "a dozen"???

You also missed the earlier use of that word in this thread which makes this usage doubly appropriate.

[1] OK, fine - I stole that from elsewhere. But I actually know what each of them means, so...
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Ahh, so you own this book. Doesn't surprise me. :)

 
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