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Thank you for this comment. I started talking like that when I was younger as, I believe, a direct result of reading 6-7 books a week. The language would just

Thank you for this comment. I started talking like that when I was younger as, I believe, a direct result of reading 6-7 books a week. The language would just surface as I was in the middle of a sentence. That language was quickly derided by my peers and those "above" me. I found that conversing in a more general manner ("fire" vs "conflagration") is conducive to moving conversations forward, even if it results in a muddled understanding. I now make efforts to speak in a less exact fashion in most circumstances and I've lost a good bit of my vocabulary as a result. On occasion I write (privately) in such language so that I retain the ability to speak in a more exacting fashion, but it's rare these days and I often feel like I'm not presenting my arguments as well as I could be.

blaines 14y ago
Don't repress yourself.
- chris_wot 14y ago
  In other words, repress repression.
- vacri 14y ago
  Better still, speak to your audience's level. Set a high bar by default, but don't maintain it to the detriment of communication.
  - biscarch 14y ago
    I agree with this, and believe it has implications for being able to communicate well and give greater precedence to the ideas one is presenting. ie: being able to grok someone else's though process to the level of allowing them to reach your conclusion on their own.
precisioncoder 14y ago
I had the same problem, especially because I loved learning words, I managed to satisfy my hunger for words by practicing different dialects in the area and working them in and out of my speech which was a lot of fun and people didn't notice/mind. Later I learned a second language which was a great outlet for that hunger.
- biscarch 14y ago
  I came to a similar solution as you, and am on my way to becoming a polyglot (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Swedish/Norweigan). I even started learning Na'vi, but the person I was learning it with wasn't as into it, so it got dropped. I believe this has also driven my adoption of languages like Haskell and Clojure, While making it easier for me to pick up languages such as Java and Obj-C.

blaines 14y ago

Don't repress yourself.

chris_wot 14y ago
In other words, repress repression.
vacri 14y ago
Better still, speak to your audience's level. Set a high bar by default, but don't maintain it to the detriment of communication.
- biscarch 14y ago
  I agree with this, and believe it has implications for being able to communicate well and give greater precedence to the ideas one is presenting. ie: being able to grok someone else's though process to the level of allowing them to reach your conclusion on their own.

precisioncoder 14y ago

I had the same problem, especially because I loved learning words, I managed to satisfy my hunger for words by practicing different dialects in the area and working them in and out of my speech which was a lot of fun and people didn't notice/mind. Later I learned a second language which was a great outlet for that hunger.

biscarch 14y ago
I came to a similar solution as you, and am on my way to becoming a polyglot (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Swedish/Norweigan). I even started learning Na'vi, but the person I was learning it with wasn't as into it, so it got dropped. I believe this has also driven my adoption of languages like Haskell and Clojure, While making it easier for me to pick up languages such as Java and Obj-C.