Words that your peers look at you funny for using.

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― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no peer.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

aw you'll make friends some day.

Jon I would look at you funny too. Are you surprised? I said "irascible" two days ago at some people's house that I'd just met and they laughed in my face.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

My school sucks.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

niggardly

― Maria D, Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon stop whining or I'll punch you in the refectory.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I had this great animated gif of hitler eating a watermelon and smiling....

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"grand"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

'deblackification'

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I picked up the habit of saying "weeeeeeelll, I don't know what to tell ya" in a slow Midwestern drawl (or my idea of one, anyway) from listening to my father-in-law. People hate that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wicked." I started saying it in New Orleans after making some reference to the SNL skit where the New Kids on the Block sang "Girl, You Are Wicked Awesome," and finding out no one knew what I was talking about -- so I had to explain about NKOTB being from Boston, and "wicked awesome" being a really Bostonian thing, and so on, and got lots of blank stares ... so I used it ironically for awhile and it snuck in and it's been part of my normal vocabulary for the last like six years now.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I use wicked all the time, being from New England. My peers have grown to accept it as "part of my heritage."

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Deadly!
Fonky.
Ice Cream!
Entropical.

― LC, Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Venue". I don't know what's so mind-blowing about the word "venue", but I get asked lots of questions whenever I say that word. "'Venue'? What's that?" I don't know -- I mean, I'll be talking to someone who will completely understand me when I use such words as "illustrious" and "dubious" and then I'll end up using the word "venue" and they become like deer in the midst of headlights.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 27 March 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

jackass (Pronounced "jack arse")

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"please" and "thank you"
no shit, my friends are all rude s.o.b.s

― Huck, Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Extraordinary.
Petito principi.
Nice.
Pissant.
Jejune.
Lanthanine (I use this all the time).

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Spanking.

As a word of approval eg, "That was a spanking dinner".

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

snarky

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Salubrious. I love that word.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 27 March 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Unemcumbered.

Why, just today I used 'contemporaneous' in a casual conversation. It was exactly the right word for the context, why shy away?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 27 March 2004 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ostensibly

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 27 March 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

inveigle
hoary

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 March 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

vinyl

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 27 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"CLASSIC OR DUD"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 March 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything with the capacity for certain intonations and drawls.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

haha nobody knows wtf I'm referring to either when I say "wicked awesome"

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 27 March 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Escarpment.
Wassock.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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