Do you use imaginative vocabulary to confuse people?
By dazeylaze
@dazeylaze (256)
June 23, 2007 7:20pm CST
I'm a bit of a snob sometimes, I must admit, and when I'm in a certain mood I'll use imaginative vocabulary when talking to people I assume won't understand me, which is so mean, I know. Sometimes people do it to make themselves sound like they're smarter than they actually are (which is what I do), lol. And I just wondered if anyone else did this, or am I alone?
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
24 Jun 07
I don't bother. I do, however, tend to laugh at people who do, especially when I'm at work. People assume that because we work retail we aren't very well educated. I work with a RN who has health problems so she can't do nursing any more, a 4th year med student from Vietnam who is working retail to put herself through university, a girl who is in her last semester of legal secretary courses and numerous other students who are really very educated, but simply need hours to suit their classes. I think we are mostly better educated than any of our customers
@dazeylaze (256)
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24 Jun 07
Lol, I know exactly what you mean. When I worked in retail shops in the past I got the feeling that a lot of people did look down on us because we were working there, but they didn't know our circumstances. You're right, many of the people I worked with in all the shops were students or people who already had degrees. But customers never see that. It's worse when you work in a very posh area. But I live in a place called Manchester in England, and I'm originally from the South, so my accent isn't like the denizen, and people tend to find me slightly posh, and with that I guess I need to vocab to fool people, lol.
No, it probably isn't that I'm trying to fool them, it's more a case of being well spoken and projecting myself in a clear manner. I'm not taken to slang people from what I've seen it doesn't get you anywhere and nobosy in the professional world respects it.
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