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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 80 points 2 years ago

Read to your kids. Use big words around them.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 52 points 2 years ago

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 😂

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

That's because it's from the simpsons.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Its_Always_420@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Either way, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I use giga huge word sounds hella

[-] narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] KnightontheSun@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Peaty@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Bob Saget was funny

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This was funny when Jimmy Carr told it.

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