<p>never mind</p>
<p>I think I might get a perfect score on the vocabulary part of the SAT after reading this thread.</p>
<p>In all seriousness though, if you truly do write/sound like this in real life, you will lose. End. Of. Story. Yeah, you sound “educated” using all those big (notice how I didn’t use any sophisticated words, yet still got my point across) words will just make you sound like a pompous asshat. </p>
<p>Let me give you an example. I wrote my common app essay and gave it to a lady who was an adcom at Princeton (not to mention received an undergraduate degree there in English) and she tore it up, saying I should take out a lot of the large words I used. Of course, throwing in a couple used CORRECTLY is necessary to show how you have mastered the nuances of the English language, but using them all the time just sounds terrible and will either 1. make the adcom laugh or 2. just plain pizss him/her off.</p>
<p>No offense :D</p>
<p>“I am talking normally.
So, my message has been clouded, due to my apt diction?”</p>
<p>It might help if you could explain where- or when- the style you use here is considered “talking normally” (or, writing normally.) This might help responders understand.
You are not using “apt diction.” Perhaps you unaware. </p>
<p>I refer you to this decription Princeton Review wrote of it’s Word Smart product: The words people use say a lot about them. Some words say that they’re smart, persuasive, and informed. Others say that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Knowing which words to use, though, is only half the battle: Once they’ve found le mot juste, they have to know how to use it correctly. That is what responders are trying to tell you.</p>
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<p>I have been using them correctly.
Could you please refer to specific instances?</p>
<p>I deleted the portions of my last response which showed a half-dozen examples of your faulty word choice and suggested more direct choices. If you wish to have this help, please let us know who you are (country, experience with English, how educated, etc) and how you came to this writing style.
And, how you came to the conclusion that this style is valid.</p>
<p>Who I am?
What a philosophical question? 
I am an international student, with great interest in bodybuilding.</p>
<p>baloney. At least, thank you for the smiley.
You do not want to leave us with our guesses as to your raison d’etre here.
Or?</p>
<p>Good luck with word and character limits on those college essays</p>
<p>Well, what is the source of your curiosity?
I am seventeen.</p>
<p>It is just a ■■■■■. Stop feeding him.</p>
<p>Source? Your insistence that you are right and we are wrong. Curiosity? No. More a last ditch attempt to see if you are toying with us or could use some help to avoid disastrously disimpressing college folks- now and later. Your choice. Straightforward exchanges or not.</p>
<p>And, yes, to the last poster, I do think it’s a ■■■■■- and not a particularly skilled one- but Courtney’s words rather haunt me.</p>
<p>I learned English in middle school.</p>
<p>Not good enough. I am done. Best of luck.</p>
<p>I am not a ■■■■■.
This argument is just absurd.</p>
<p>* lookingforward * I have replied to you via Wall Messages.</p>
<p>You learned english,but clearly you did not learn communication.Some well meaning advice:burn all your dictionaries and use the smoke to send a signal to the nearest ESL/TOEFL prep centre near you.You have a lot to learn about the appropriate use of the English language.</p>
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With a 2400 on the SAT, I do not find your advice to be a helpful one.
It took time and work, but I have achieved it.</p>
<p>Writing section requires careful reasoning, and I have used Noitaraperp’s CR guide for Reading.</p>
<p>All right, everyone.</p>
<p>Thank you for castigating my diction, communication, and other literary techniques.</p>
<p>Please peruse my posting history.
I am not a ■■■■■.
My stats can be found there.</p>
<p>I love how OP fails to address my contentions yet goes on to refute meaningless points.
Shows how much this kid knows about what he’s talking about…</p>