so many big words!

[erin74]

Hi,

I love this part of the forum, but I always find after reading a couple of posts my head hurts! You guys use so many big words! Do you ever have conversations made up of words with less than 5 syllables (sp?)????

I have grown up (christian speaking) in the Sydney diocese of the anglican church. I have been to all the conferences, read the books, and my hubby has been to bible college - he probably knows your words - and yet I come here and you use words I've never heard of as if they are everyday things. Even the younger memebers!!!! It astounds me! Maybe I'll have to pull down my hubby's calvin books and have a read one day!

Wishing I had a larger vocabulary to better appreciate this part of the forum

erin

 

[StAnselm]

I never use a long word when a diminuitive one will do.

 

[Jon_]

Hi,

I love this part of the forum, but I always find after reading a couple of posts my head hurts! You guys use so many big words! Do you ever have conversations made up of words with less than 5 syllables (sp?)????

I have grown up (christian speaking) in the Sydney diocese of the anglican church. I have been to all the conferences, read the books, and my hubby has been to bible college - he probably knows your words - and yet I come here and you use words I've never heard of as if they are everyday things. Even the younger memebers!!!! It astounds me! Maybe I'll have to pull down my hubby's calvin books and have a read one day!

Wishing I had a larger vocabulary to better appreciate this part of the forum

erin

Hey Erin!

Yeah, we Reformers like to throw around big words to confuse outsiders.

Heh, just kidding. I know that I, for one, could be much better about adding parenthetical defitions for the terms. That would help readers that aren't familiar with them to understand the discussion.

I think you made a good suggestion, Erin. I'll take it to heart.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[erin74]

Sorry - I wasn't meaning to have a go at you guys so much as me. I think it's amazing that you all know all this stuff. I wish I knew half of it. Don't curb your discussion for me.

Perhaps we could have a 'for people who like little words' thread once a week or something!

Love the diminuitive comment by the way!

erin

 

[Beoga]

Erin, if you want to really read something with big words, try reading Cornelius Van Til. He will be fun!!!

 

[erin74]

I suppose that would be some help for next time I play word games!

 

[ClementofRome]

I consider the erudition of this Forum to be superlative!

(READ: "These guys are a brainy bunch, huh?)

 

[Imblessed]

I never use a long word when a diminuitive one will do.

ROFL !!!!!

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

On some Reformed boards and chat rooms, they speak an even more confusing language consisting almost entirely of abbreviations: WCF, CRC, OPC, PCA, RPW, ESV, KJV, AV, TR... I think I prefer the big words.

 

[JJB]

Here's a good diminutive word I read somewhere from a Calvinist:

cavil

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

Here's a good diminutive word I read somewhere from a Calvinist:

cavil

From a Calvinist? I find that usually that word is directed to a Calvinist.

 

[JJB]

From a Calvinist? I find that usually that word is directed to a Calvinist.

Maybe it was being used in a quotation. I don't recall. I do recall that it was from the lips of a reformed brother. First time I saw it, I had to go look it up.

 

[5solas]

Hi,
and yet I come here and you use words I've never heard of as if they are everyday things. Even the younger memebers!!!! It astounds me!

Almost everytime I read or post here I have another window open with an online dictionary (English-German translation service) because my mother tongue is not English....

 

[erin74]

Almost everytime I read or post here I have another window open with an online dictionary (English-German translation service) because my mother tongue is not English....

Nothing to be ashamed of there - my mother tongue is english -that's the sad bit!

 

[Rick Otto]

you won't find in a dictionary:
"Supercalvinfragilisticecclesiastidocious"

 

[rmwilliamsll]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian obfuscation

 

[Bulldog]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian obfuscation

What the pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism are you talking about?

 

[Jon_]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian obfuscation

What a floccinaucinihilipilification.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[erin74]

see now I suspect that you guys may be making fun of me

just maybe

I seem to remember studing existential phenomenology at uni

dh's favourite is antidisestablismentarianism

I really liked Supercalvinfragilisticecclesiastidocious though.

 

[StAnselm]

Actually, antidisestablishmentarianism is incompatible with Calvinism, IMHO.