rage quit
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Wow. Nice. Monsoonal?
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Poor little fella.
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Pretty 
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I havenât heard them in years⌠
sesquipedality
Did I done good? Do I win today?
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sesquipedality
Hmm, the only time I remember that prefix is with âcentennialâ attached to it⌠I think 
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Long and fancy words .
Short and 4 letter words are easier and get to the point directly. 
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I think I heard this cover long before I ever heard Billie sing it.
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Nice
Using longer, more complex words can sometimes be beneficial because they can convey precise meanings and nuances that simpler words might miss.
Sophisticated vocabulary can enhance the richness of communication, making it more engaging and intellectually stimulating.
To me, this is one of the biggest potential advantages of using English for communication vs many other languages since it has extensively borrowed from other languages to ensure accurate communication of various concepts but richly, thus having access to a vast array of words to choose from, enabling them to convey subtle differences in meaning more effectively.
This is precisely why Englishâs flexibility and adaptability make it particularly suited for technical and scientific communication, where precise terminology is crucial. Hence making it the global preferred language, particularly for things like technology and academia.
There is indeed a need for sesquipedality, and English is king there.
Though English sucks as far as grammar she consistency go. 
and it doesnât sound as melodic as many other languages. Plus our constant colloquial slang and our slurring words together with horrible enunciation is ridiculous. We often often donât talk the way we write, and many people donât even realize it. Example: âgunnaâ instead of âgoing toâ like: âIâm gunna go to the storeâ is what many say even though weâd mostly all write âIâm going to go to the store.â
But when it comes to precision and clarity, English has extremely high potential and our sesquipedality should be applauded for the progression of mankind. 
Even if most of it is adopted and adapted from worldwide language.
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Also 1-finger gestures. 
I wouldâve guessed German might be up there, considering the way that language tends to compound so many words together to make a single word, but Iâve never formally studied that one.
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Yes, good point. One of my brothers speaks Dutch and German and I have learned a bit about it through conversations with him. Compounding is a pretty cool thing about German that also allows precision through long and specific words in combining a lot of root words. I like that.
Some of them are a little weird to me though. Like:
- Lebensmittelgeschäft: literally âlife-means-shop,â meaning grocery store.
Still, that function of their language does allow it to encapsulate extensive concepts into a single word with greater clarity, in some cases more so than English equivalents.
German benefits from a more systematic approach, while English excels in flexibility and adaptivity, but might require more words than German in many cases, and English compound words are typically more simple and limited related to nuanced meanings. And to be fair, we English speakers are often ruining our semantics over time more than most languages. Take the word âLiterallyâ for exampleâŚit used to have a clear meaning and now itâs been destroyed. It more often gets used to mean the exact OPPOSITE from itâs original meaning. People usually either mean âFigurativelyâ or use it as a way to exaggerate or intensify a statement (in place of "really, extremely, very). Literally very rarely means literally anymore (actually, truly).
There is certainly a strong case to make for German being better for technical and scientific effectiveness due to the their systematic compounding advantage, which can arguably make it more precise and clear than even English when it comes to technical or scientific areas. Though to me, some of their grammar and word order is unnecessarily rigid, but the language structure has contributed to a culture that is more direct than others, which I like in some ways.
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