I was replying to your statement: "It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time." I'm saying they fail to sound smarte

I was replying to your statement: "It just seems people use it to sound smarter, and thus fail miserably 99% of the time." I'm saying they fail to sound smarter with you but perhaps succeed in sounding smarter [not at being right] with the vast majority.