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> or highly specialized This is what makes me love a word. When I can find a word that just perfectly and succinctly expresses what I'm trying to communicate,

• presidentender 16y ago
  Thus your working vocabulary lacks orthogonality, but compensates with brevity.
  • daeken 16y ago
    I know you were making a joke (I think? I laughed, at least), but I wouldn't say that he's compensating with brevity; rather, he has depth and not (much) breadth.
    • presidentender 16y ago
      That man can use few words but they are good words and so we can know what they all mean. If we have to use words that are not as good we have to say them more, but we do not need to know as many words.
• electromagnetic 16y ago
  My biggest problem growing up was that I could latch onto these highly specialized words at an early age and wholly grasp the meaning. I then knew simple and advanced words, yet if someone didn't know the word I used I would have a hell of a time explaining it because I didn't have the moderately difficult words to still explain it in a rather succinct way. I love talking, however I like being precise with my wording. It creates an elegance without trying to create artificial elitism. Knowing words isn't a cause of intelligence it's a correlated result and faking the latter to mimic the former is a fools quest.
• btilly 16y ago
  The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. -- Mark Twain