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Old 27-October-2005, 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Lonewulf
It also peevs me off that some people seem to think that the bigger words someone uses (thus, the more knowledge of vocabulary), the more smart he must be.
I would say that person A thinks that person B is smart because he uses bigger words than person A does, that is a good indication that person B is in fact smarter than A. Smart enough to fool him, that is.
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