Stanley79 636 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 You're at a coffee shop enjoying chai and deep in conversation with Polly. Would you consider her too polysyllabic for suddenly saying, "Oops! I didn't attend to my hypercalcaemia-induced polyuria quickly enough! Make a shadow on me as we get out of here"? Or would you consider her clever for choosing a phrase unlikely parsed by folks at the next table? What other unusual ways could she have expressed the situation? Quote Link to comment
Noot 758 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 If anyone ever talked to me like that I'd get the hell out of that conversation, unless they were joking. Omomancer, purlypuff, PixelatedHeart and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
SoggyShorts 815 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I suspect that polysyllabicity is not the issue so much as the clinical sound of the specific polysyllabisms you have selected to use. Were the conversants medical professionals, I might find this reasonable, but in any other situation, not so much. Quote Link to comment
SCTrainFanatic 218 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I'm not going to date someone who needs to prove how smart they are all the time Omomancer 1 Quote Link to comment
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