Tales of Long Words

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The future, the present and the past. We live in a world of big words. In result, we have to rely more and more on dictionaries and encyclopedias to sound smart or to understand what people trying to sound smart actually mean. I am certain that you have been affected too either as a victim or source.

I am sure you know that big words have a lot of power. Whenever you want to create a sophisticated impression, use big words. Whenever you want to sound smart, use big words. Whenever you want to intimidate, use big words. Whenever you want to exclude somebody of lower intelligence, you resort to big words. Due to this power, we are intoxicated by big words. We buy thesaurus. We learn it everyday. We take down notes whenever we come across a big word we don't know. Well to tell you the truth, I am sickened of you all using these bloody long words.

Well, in actuality I don't mind people using these big words cause it builds my vocabulary. But the ones I despise are those that use the thesaurus or uses big words to impress to make life difficult for both himself and me. Why the hell go through so much trouble as looking through a thesaurus to type a longer word when you have the perfect simple word to describe something. It sincerely confuses me the troubles people go through to pretend to be something they are not. Writing is supposed to be natural with flow and rhythm to it. When you pull up another word from the dictionary, you disrupt everything natural about it; be it the flow or rhythm. Another thing you might disturb is the emotion. I mean would you rather have me say "The erudite manner through which you have expressed your tenets and paradigms impresses me. A commendable effort" or "The way you expressed your thoughts and ideas are impressive to me. Good job." If your choice is the former, I feel sorry for you because you have truly lost grasp of what is important and also worn out your thesaurus and dictionary.

So please, I beg of you. Be yourself. You don't have to sound smart through big words for people to know you are smart. You don't have to use big words to be something you are not. What matters is what you say and how it flows. Having good language skills is not about how to use big words to "wow" people. It is about writing with emotion, rhythm and nice flow. It is about invoking emotions. It is about being inspiring, being a muse. Of course I would be impressed if you can convey it in such a manner with the use of big words with a nice flow. But if you are not used to it yet, don't force it. If you use big words before you are able, you'll only come off as a person who tries too hard and who is well, rather insecure. You might think that it is a tad hypocritical of me to say all this as I am a lover of obscure big words but trust me, I had never opened a thesaurus and I am not planning to until I am old and have nothing else to do but learn synonyms. Simplicity is after all beautiful and simple words in actuality had been underestimated in everyone's desire to sound unique and smart with their long, obscure words that they forget the statement.

I wish you all will appreciate the beauty of simple words.
I wish you are secure enough to use simple words.
So that you may not need to be bound to the thesaurus and dictionaries forever.
All I can hope for is that wishes do come true.

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