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It a really dumb thing to do, unless you're intent is to use it as some sort of code.

However, it can be bit of fun.

Do you remember the scene in "Braveheart" when the darling prince's boyfriend was thrown out of the window of the tower to his death?

Did you know there is a word for that?

Defenestration
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For other uses, see Defenestration (disambiguation).

Matthäus Merian's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague
Defenestration (from Modern Latin fenestra[1]), is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War. This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's City Hall almost 200 years earlier (July 1419), which also on that occasion led to the Hussite war.[3] The word comes from the New Latin[4] de- (down from) and fenestra (window or opening).[5

Whats a big word to some, isn't to others.

Not well educated, just a general studies high school (barely) graduate.
But I'm an avid reader, and that's developed a decent vocabulary.

Guys at work?
Most read nothing but the newspaper. Maybe just the sports.

Been told I "use big words".

Not my intentions, not trying to impress or befuddle. Just talking.

Those around you are also a factor.
Professional type people often commented on our young daughters
vocabulary, and speaking skills. Always found that amusing, our kids were
better spoken than many of the...higher class kids. Not my thoughts
but those of others.

- - - - Big words were meant to be more precise and exacting. I believe the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution spurred research into metallurgy and chemistry, and thus education in general. To get your non mathematical ideas across though post of book, you had to use the exactly correct words. It was an scientific and academic arms race into the Age of Imperialism. All this exactness and precision are useless when trying to get a point across to my wife. It is folly to try.

Lol...I did have a fella tell me the other day that "you gotta have tires with good gription on these roads". Hell...even made up words that people can understand are better than bullshit words they can't.

Try to get it done in as few words as possible. Beer, sex, food.

People that enjoy learning soon realize that most folks embrace the average and simplify their comms around average people. A great communicator can simplify complex thought to influence the proletariat. A learned clear thinker can appreciate both complex and simple language and concepts and apply them appropriately to real life.

When you quit learning you start dying.


mike r