Really Smart????

[reeb]

Are yall really smart???

I dont use these 50cent words all the time ( none ).

Is there such a thang as just plane english??

Like " have agood one" vice Ta Ta see you later.

enough........... :cd: :cd:

[JeffL]

Reeb, I'm confused. To what 50-cent words do you refer?

More importantly, I never, NEVER claimed to be smart. I prefer to think of myself as not stupid.


Jeff

[janecallanan]

Reeb,
Those dollar words are even worse, or when someone uses a 75 cent word, and they don't have exact change and hand you a $20 bill. If you don't have the change, you have to keep listening to words until their $20 is used up.
Just say "Shut up, Jane" anytime.

[reconeil]

Please explain. Were you meaning to say that anyone saying: "Ta Ta see you later" comes-off as a; "Rocket-Scientist" to you?

Besides, "Ta Ta" doesn't seem too uppity or hoy-palloy to me.
Let's do lunch some time.

Neil

[janecallanan]

Neil, How much do we owe ya for 'hoy-palloy'?

[Keith_Hixson]

I just memorize them there big words and use them. Nobody knows the meanings and then they think I'm really smart.

Keith

Seriously,

I only use words I know and use on a regular basis. I really don't know what you are referring too. ????

[reconeil]

Owe me nothing. It's just a common expression I heard MANY, MANY, MANY Moons-ago as a kid. Spelling of such questionable.

Still, and since so many of the current Government/Media/Hollywood Set come-off nowadays as Society's Betters and/or Moral Superiors as The Filthy Rich once did,...maybe the expression: "Hoy-palloy" might make a come-back. Don't you think?

Hey J.C.,...who-the-hell-knows? Besides, "It" is so mild and mellow,...it would probably be considered: "Politically-correct" and/or non-offending, which is all that truly matters. Yeah, sure. And, I'm The Queen of England.

Neil

[janecallanan]

I always like the phrase "rip snorter' Made me laugh so hard the first time I heard it that it still tickles the funny bone.

[Advisor]

hoi polloi

SYLLABICATION:	hoi pol?loi
PRONUNCIATION:[/url]	AUDIO: hoi p-loiKEY
NOUN:	The common people; the masses.
ETYMOLOGY:	Greek, the many : hoi, nominative pl. of ho, the; see pel-1 in Appendix I.
USAGE NOTE:	Hoi polloi is a borrowing of the Greek phrase hoi polloi, consisting of hoi, meaning ?the? and used before a plural, and polloi, the plural of polus, ?many.? In Greek hoi polloi had a special sense, ?the greater number, the people, the commonalty, the masses.? This phrase has generally expressed this meaning in English since its first recorded instance, in an 1837 work by James Fenimore Cooper. Hoi polloi is sometimes incorrectly used to mean ?the elite,? possibly because it is reminiscent of high and mighty or because it sounds like hoity-toity. ?Since the Greek phrase includes an article, some critics have argued that the phrase the hoi polloi is redundant. But phrases borrowed from other languages are often reanalyzed in English as single words. For example, a number of Arabic noun phrases were borrowed into English as simple nouns. The Arabic element al? means ?the,? and appears in English nouns such as alcohol and alchemy. Thus, since no one would consider a phrase such as ?the alcohol? to be redundant, criticizing the hoi polloi on similar grounds seems pedantic.

[kenmar]

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
OSCAR WILDE