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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #195 on: March 07, 2013, 10:06:19 AM »
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I used "sub judice" in my appellate brief and my professor admitted to having to Google it.  To me that feels like a win, but he felt I should have dumbed it down :(

NEGs to your prof for wanting you to "dumb down" an intellectual exercise.

Is this lametard asking you to eliminate Latin from the voice of law?  If so, he may have forgotten from whence a large portion of modern day law comes.

:yikes:

Yes, I agree.  What's the point of getting a law degree if I can't use it to talk down to people ;)

Well, you can also have their asses in court.

That takes extra effort.  Have to draft a complaint, drive to the courthouse, pay for parking, wait in line ..... :GA:

Of course, once you do that you get to bankrupt them in discovery, even if you don't really have a case.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #196 on: March 08, 2013, 06:33:08 PM »
I used the word "opined" in an essay and my tutor drew a circle around it and put a question mark there. There is such a word, I know there is.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #197 on: March 08, 2013, 06:40:32 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on March 08, 2013, 06:33:08 PM
I used the word "opined" in an essay and my tutor drew a circle around it and put a question mark there. There is such a word, I know there is.

I know the feeling.  When I was a university auditor, I used the word "criterion" appropriately in a report.  My boss made me change it to criteria "because it looks better."  Excuse me, but this report is going to a PHD head of a department!!!!!
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #198 on: March 08, 2013, 07:22:14 PM »
Yeah, people don't understand there is such a thing as one criterion.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #199 on: March 08, 2013, 08:41:29 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on March 08, 2013, 07:22:14 PM
Yeah, people don't understand there is such a thing as one criterion.
One criterion,
Two critertia,
Three criteria,
Four,
Five criteria,
Six criteria
Seven criteria more.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #200 on: March 09, 2013, 02:05:26 PM »
It's Greek to them, that's all.
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« Reply #201 on: March 09, 2013, 02:13:54 PM »
He brew up a lot of answers, they were russian and roman around.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #202 on: March 10, 2013, 01:15:09 PM »
Posset, syllabub, poltroon, mummer.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #203 on: March 10, 2013, 03:11:43 PM »
Circumlocution is a good one...*reminisces Charles Dickens' circumlocution office from Little Dorrit*
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #204 on: March 13, 2013, 03:45:52 PM »
Gusset, sextant, cockerel, hod
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #205 on: March 13, 2013, 07:16:27 PM »


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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #206 on: March 13, 2013, 07:18:42 PM »
I remember when Rod Serling used the word "synergy" in the introduction to a Twilight Zone episode.  It wasn't well known or used before then.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #207 on: March 15, 2013, 12:20:17 PM »
Pederast, catamite, sodomite
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #208 on: April 05, 2013, 08:54:05 AM »
Perfunctory.
Makes me want to get down and dance....in a factory.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #209 on: April 05, 2013, 09:05:17 AM »
I like calling people dinguses, but the situation to call them one hardly comes up. Its a really under used word.  :thumbup:
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