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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Read to your kids. Use big words around them.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, say things like “Oh how droll, your lexicon and command of the English language is quite lamentable. Perchance your parents taught you little and never thought to embiggen your vernacular?”

Also lmao iPhones don’t recognize that embiggen is an actual dictionary word 😂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because it's from the simpsons.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, no! The Simpsons used the word and was the reason it was actually put into the dictionary, but originally the word was used in a book from some dude in 1884 by the name of C.A. Ward.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but if the Simpsons didn't get the word from that book and came up with the concept independently, and then popularized it, it's still valid to say that it came from the Simpsons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Either way, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use giga huge word sounds hella

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Your unenlightened vernacular is apparent scoundrel. Face the folly of your simplistic lexicon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My girlfriend accused me of being a pedophile. I said, "Hey, that's a pretty big word for a 10-yr old."

[–] Peaty 12 points 1 year ago

Bob Saget was funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This was funny when Jimmy Carr told it.