Limited vocabulary

[EltonFrog]

?...This thread is actually in danger of becoming funny. Be careful people.

Nope! It's not funny yet, is it?

 

[postman]

I do even at 64.I find myself using my deafness as an excuse no to join in,too much background noise or hearing aids cannot pull out the babble fast enough,these i use as excuses.But talking about cycling or charity work that i do,it just flows,try to steer the conversation into subjects you enjoy.Even start one inbetween a conversation.Good luck.

 

[hopless500]

No need to apologise, I am well aware of my spelling and grammatical bollux ups.

Ah. So you don't want cogitation's or expatiation's pointing out then

 

[growingvegetables]

Learn Latin. Allows you to make up fine-sounding words.

 

[Saluki]

Learn Latin. Allows you to make up fine-sounding words.

I studied Latin at school. Or I allegedly studied Latin as 5th form games was on out of the window, on the school playing field and Aden Dorness was rather nice to look at in his shorts.
My latin is now non existent as I've not really had to use it much in real life.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If the thinking's clear, the words will nearly always spring to mind.

If it's muddled, make like G W Bush and inventify them.

 

[vernon]

Ah. So you don't want cogitation's or expatiation's pointing out then

You are a greengrocer AICMFP

 

[jefmcg]

It's probably not your vocab that's letting you down.
Years ago I was shown a pretty terrible series of management training films, starring old pythons and likely lads. But one piece of advice I remember being quite useful. The hapless protaganist said something like "I can't speak in public, I don't know all the big words". They gave this example (from my memory).

"Shakespeare didn't say 'Human males of increasing decrepitude tend have lapses in their capacity for recollection'. He said 'Old men forget'"

You already have the vocabulary to express your thoughts. You need to learn how to use it.

 

[hopless500]

You are a greengrocer AICMFP

They weren't my apostrophes They belong to CarlP

 

[hopless500]

Or should that be apostrophe's

 

[slowmotion]

Read The Spectator.

 

[vickster]

No, I went to school and university

 

[EltonFrog]

They weren't my apostrophes They belong to CarlP

Now't to do with me, I just copied and pasted, as you probably knew. I don't have the wit to use big words.

 

[tyred]

In one's purely subjective and perspicacious perspective, I decree to perpend that the appropriateness of humongous words as inconsequential significance in our quotidian activity.

 

[Smokin Joe]

A couple of days sparring with the heavyweights on Society, Culture & Politics and you'll have all the long words you ever need.

You won't understand most of them, but they're there for the taking.