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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
If one reads mostly contemporary (mainstream) fiction), then it's not really much of a feature. However, I read a lot of non-fiction where Oxbridge/Ivy League authors do throw in highflutin' terms every so often.
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Terms like hifalutin? This correction is delivered not in a tone of superiority, but of (hopefully) shared ironic hilarity.
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I have a far above-average English vocabulary (so says my Mensa card)
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Again, no disparagement intended, but membership in Mensa is not predicated upon vocabulary, and citing Mensa membership in conversation rarely improves one's credibility. Membership in Mensa proves, above all, that one has sought membership in Mensa.