Is it pretentious to use "literary language" in my day-to-day speech? I sometimes find myself using rhymes, metaphors, alliteration and all kinds of literary devices even when I am just talking to regular folk.
Am I a faggot?
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>>8063795
it just means you aren't a normie
Stupid people get embarrassed when they don't understand words, so they lash out verbally.
Show them that you perceive this and laugh pitilessly at the clumsy attempt to mask their shame.
If you are not intentionally doing it in an attempt to appear more intellectual or intelligent, it is not, by definition, pretentious. Friends and students of mine occassionally call me pretentious because of my word choice or how I pronounce things, but I just believe in being deliberate and precise with my word choice and I think my sometimes seemingly odd pronunciations are a result of an accent that is influenced by my family being from one region, growing up in another, and spending a significant amount of time in a third before recently moving back to where I grew up.
I actually had to show my students that culinary can be pronounced "CUE-lin-ary", for example. At the same time, I'll use "y'all" in informal conversations because I spent a lot of time in the deep south.
Tl;dr: who gives a fuck what they think as long as you aren't actively trying to seem like you're superior. Do you.
>>8063795
You can say whatever you want as long as you use the words correctly and say them like you say them all the time.
>We get shown an example of how not to do an email in work yesterday
>Bad spelling, misuse of words, etc
>Our trainer accidentally reveals the guy's name
>A guy in the training group starts laughing and says he'll call the guy dyslexic
>I say that's like the pot calling the kettle black
>No one in the group understood this simple idiom
>Mfw
>>8065385
I've used the pot calling the kettle black before and I got called racist. How are people this dumb?
>>8063795
I speak like a book sometimes. I'm not as skilfully tongued as to get away with any deep alliteration or behemoth words seamlessly, but I like to use metaphors and a lot of wordplay and puns into my speech. That's only when the mood strikes me though, normally I'll be swearing like a sailor. Despite a pretty ridiculous accent, people think I speak very well - but it's mainly a side effect of a nervous tick I have that ups my vocabulary the more anxious I get.
>>8063795
read more celine
>>8063795
I've been told I'm well spoken but I'm too jovial to keep up a formal act. Lightheartedness is danker to me than bombastic speech.
>>8065396
How are you this big of a bigot?
>>8064332
Underrated meme
If it's just natural to you, it makes you more interesting as a person.
>>8063795
Of course not, my dear boy. Such reactions stem from a deeply seated insecurity, probably relating to the listeners earliest childhood memories. To paraphrase the great Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The limits of ones language is the limits of ones mind." Now where is that indolent waiter with my half-caff double cream latte?
