<p>The only reason anyone’s on CC in the first place is because they lack social skills. That’s about as far as the correlation goes. </p>
<p>Go to YouTube, look at the comments on any given video, tell me the average youtuber is intelligent, then tell me he/she has a social life.</p>
<p>My guess would be that time spent in academic isolation gives way to deeper thought and a more diverse vocabulary to express those thoughts. How many people do you know who have large vocabularies and AREN’T at least above-average in terms of intelligence?</p>
<p>Do keep in mind the caliber of most students who are on CC; they can understand what they are saying and what others are saying. If there are a few words that you happen to come across that you don’t know, take it as a chance to look them up and expand your vocabulary.</p>
<p>lmao I totally forgot about that time HSL had threads determining every possible permutation of interracial dating. Between QuantumArbiter and MIT, it was a pretty intense amount</p>
<p>I’m kind of frequently accused of “trying really hard to sound intelligent,” “using big words just to sound smart,” etc. In reality, I’m usually just communicating in a way that’s natural to me, and trying to “dumb down” the way I speak or write isn’t faithful to my own voice. So just saying that not EVERYONE that uses big words is pretentious and annoying and trying to show off.</p>
<p>sometimes people have innately big vocabularies they’ve absorbed through reading etc.</p>
<p>also “smart” vocabularies differ from person to person. “Coincidentally” wouldn’t be considered a <em>big</em> word to some, especially not on here, but if I said it around the people I go to school with they’d be like “omg that’s a big word!!!”</p>
<p>@riuado Well it is generally easier and more effective to talk and argue if people can UNDERSTAND what you’re saying and you convey it effectively.</p>
<p>If this site is too much for you, then leave. No one will stop you.</p>
<p>In any case, people hundreds of years ago now, in Europe for example, talked with vocabulary far greater than the vocabulary generally employed today.</p>
<p>I have found that having a large vocabulary makes it easier to BS assignments that you don’t know how to complete. You could literally pull stuff out of your ass and write down the equivalent of word vomit, and you can sometimes get good grades for it.</p>
<p>Like today in AP Psychology. I got into the course very late and didn’t know what an operational definition was, and I decided to BS a lab we had to do.</p>
<p>Question: “What is the operational definition of a chocolate chip?”</p>
<p>Me: “A chocolate chip is a piece of chocolate generally small in stature, normally round in size. Most of the world’s chocolate chips are produced in Cote d’Ivoire, a country in West Africa that exports over half of the world’s cocoa. There are many varieties of them; white chocolate chips have gained popularity in recent years, although the classic brown ones continue to be the most-used. The term ‘chip’ can be used to describe any small piece of chocolate found in pastries, most notably cookies. Size is not a factor in determining whether it is indeed a chip, as many pastry brands employ the use of some that can potentially reach the size of a United States quarter.”</p>
<p>I actually got it right, and I just relied on random trivia I’ve learned and big words.</p>
<p>Most of the CCers generally do better in education, or are more enthusiastic (thus putting forth the effort to prep for college). More enthusiasm probably means they are more enthusiastic in learning- and reading/writing.</p>
<p>Some CCrs incorporate such rhetoric because of essays and APs. Others just develop this sort of intelligent lisp- whether they actually write like this normally might be an indicator to social life.</p>
<p>What I can say is that most who write like an open thesaurus naturally do that when writing anything. It might be annoying for you to hear what seems like a facade of higher writing, just as chatspeak might be migrane-insinuating for me.</p>