#92

IT’S AN INITIALISM!!!

#93

On paper, given as much time as I need to think and edit my words, exceptionally articulate (I think). I can use fancy words but I prefer not to; my talent is really in conveying things accessibly with simple words - several uni friends looked down on me for it and said I was too basic in writing essays but the tutors clearly disagreed :smirk:

Out loud I’m pretty good if I’m prepared and not flustered. If I’m unprepared (usually) or flustered/furious, I’m a stuttering, nonsensical wreck more often than not.

Got mocked by friends etc for using ‘hubristic’ in the post game chitchat on one of my episodes of Countdown but it’s not a coincidence that this was the word used for my nemesis’s quarter final conundrum (he didn’t get it, denying himself a perfect game).

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#94

I’m quite amused that the Countdown community runs in-jokes during the show to entertain themselves :smiley:

On the word rounds are the letter stacks prepped in order or randomised? I wanna know if the ‘surprise’ dirty words are intentional :smirk:

#95

years of customer service over the phone stuff with people who often dont have english as their first language or are incredibly stressed out, plus writing for web either in super plain english or semi-creatively for music reviews means im pretty good i guess? which is prob why i make v little effort here. im clever as fuck but i dont want you nobs to realise

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#96

posting wise i’d say i operate at elite level

irl i’m a dithering mumbling kind of guy

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#97

when i can get past feeling self-conscious i can be extremely charming and articulate irl, this is maybe 2.3% of the time tho

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#98

also in person i like to pepper my smarts with colloquialisms, to show im a man of the people despite being a fucking brain of britain

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#100

cough

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#101

I say um to stall for time a lot and then still can’t think of anything so look even stupider

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#102

Think I’m relatively articulate in writing but in speech I’m absolutely terrible - unimaginative and frequently muddled like my brain can’t keep up with my mouth

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#103

I’ve got a theory I think a lot slower than most people. Remember on some presentation skills training course they said something about how people struggle as people think a lot quicker then they talk, I definitely don’t, if anything I hav to speed up my thinking to talk, so out of interest are you

  • Articulate and think faster than talk
  • Articulate but think slower than talk
  • Inarticulate and think faster than talk
  • Inarticulate and think slower than talk
  • Depends
  • Tory option

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#104

I talk way too fast which is a large part of the problem. When I’m relaxed and I slow right down I can form sentences and thoughts properly but usually I race ahead and it’s carnage

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#105

Oh, I found it amusing because it was a very succinct post hence epitomising the ‘reining it in’

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#106

I think I’m pretty articulate but as the years have rolled on since ~30 my ability to remember particular words is getting worse and worse.

I find myself Googling meanings to find the specific apt word I want to use in just a post on here for example.

Feel pretty bad about people getting shat on for using nice words, though.

I grew up with various parts of my family being quite specific about my speaking but I’ve also spent my life being very guarded about how I say things. Used to get called ‘posh’ at school because my accent was so flat and crisp compared to other Londoners thanks to my parents not being Londoners.

So that meant I spent a lot of time glottal-stopping and stuff to try to make it less bad (still was pretty clear I wasn’t proper local working class of course).

I also learned in my teens that people find other people’s specific interests really dull unless they are interested in them. It led me to be quite guarded talking about stuff, e.g. geeky things or chiming in with stuff I know without qualifying it with “I reckon maybe,” or “It’s possible that,” types of phrasing, in order to avoid sounding didactic (there’s a word I hate using but I can’t really think of a good non-upper vocab version) or like I think I’m better than someone because I know something they don’t.

As a result when meeting new people socially you’d probably find my chat escalates in both specifics and also word use as I get a measure for the expectations of who I’m talking to, over the course of an evening.

I still do have a habit of using stupid words like ‘dour’ (pronounced correctly as do-er) when there are just as good, more popular words around.