The difference between NTs and Aspies

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I agree with you. Although a lot of the Parent's Forum seems reasonable.

This sentence is overly abstruse. Please restate in a more comprehensible manner. Also sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a period. And yes I know you are not serious.

I am going to look up sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, and excogitate now.

Actually your post is quite literate, which I really appreciate.

The following post might pass on a less literate NT forum. It's much shorter.

like evr notice how aspies r all like weird & stuff??? they go on an on an on and wont shuddup!! !! !! !

Hey, same here, except I haven't eliminated the pedantic vocabulary in my verbal speech. Its a feature not a bug!

that is tautological.





i can not be bothered following protocols that i do not agree with (pertaining to capital letters and unnecessary periods). is a period really necessary to add to the obvious end to my post?

i mean, one can not keep reading beyond what i say, so is a final period necessary? no. that is why i never use a final "full stop".

now i will elaborate on the sesquipedalian post i made.

"i excogitate that the prevalence of annunciated sesquipedality is unsubstantial when juxtaposed with the prevalence of sesquipedalianism in transcriptive elucidations" means that i have carefully considered that there are many less people who are pedantic in a spoken way than in a written way, and the insinuation is that anyone can be pedantic if they have enough time to try to be pedantic if they wish to be that way

I always wondered if most NTs had a refined sense for when a word was "common" and when it wasn't, because I notice there are people who use relatively large words all the time but yet they don't get attacked for it, whereas it does when I seem to, suggesting I might have a worse sense of "word rarity" or some such. Of course, maybe my lexicon is perfectly fine and they're picking on my language usage for other reasons. (I get the feeling "lexicon" might be considered a part of a not-so-fine, pedantic lexicon, lol.)

Yes. If a large word is commonly used, nobody will get annoyed with your use of it since most people will know what it means. The way to have a feel for word rarity/frequency is frequent conversations with many different groups of people and also exposure to many types of media. If a large word is used frequently on TV or in movies, people will understand it even if they don't use it a lot themselves.

Why are the infrequently used large words annoying to so many people? Because it's perceived as a way of saying, "I use these words without having to look them up but you have to look them up because you're dumber than me." That may not have been the intention, but it will be a common interpretation. A way to get around this annoyance is to use these words infrequently. If they pop up in your language now and then, it doesn't come across as being deliberately obfuscating (I did it right there!- only once in the entire paragraph). Instead it comes across as trying to be specific. People sometimes figure out what you mean by context or ask about the word. But if you use so many low-frequency big words that most people have no idea what you just said than you are perceived as being intentionally annoying- implying they are too dumb to understand you.