Thesaurus Rape
when someone uses big words despite the fact that they:
-cannot spell
-sound unnatural saying them
-don’t know what the words mean
-didn’t need to use such complicated words to get their point across
-are really dumb, and try to sound smart by saying them
tom: i have just explicated your histrionics you boondoggling pantimime!
jake: and you are also guilty of thesaurus rape….
the use of “big” words in lieu of their “common” counterparts (often out of context) in a futile attempt to sound more intelligent. this technique is often used by liberal arts students when attempting to sound competent when talking about a subject that they have no clue about.
in a cl-ss room discussion about urbandictionary.com
jill: urban dictionary’s abominable nature not only proliferates the use of exiguous, diminutive, colloquial english, it actually bolsters and espouses it!
jack: ya, and it gives us words like thesaurus rape to describe what you are doing!!
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