semantic_degeneration . he said he was was being sarcastic, but no flesh was torn; irony was the device he'd employed, yet the mention of irony always confused him. she used the words big, huge, mammoth, gargantuan, gigantic, and enormous as though they all had identical meanings, as though the language included fifty words for the same idea simply to satisfy some synonymic quota; when another carefully selected behemoth instead of large, the nuance was lost on her, all the words simply meant 'big', her mind could process these symbols no further than a cursory interpretation. 100708 ... unhinged you can use the obscure etymology of the word i chose to poke holes in my argument prove how much smarter you are than me argue semantics til you're blue in the face cause an original idea has a hard time crossing your thoughts so you poke holes in mine instead i grew up in a suburb where we always said 'good' when we should have said 'well' 'can' instead of 'may' adverbs evade me i sat inside in the summertime allergic to pollen and sunshine reading up everything in my path voracious go ahead poke holes in my ideas cause they make you feel inferior i think you know what i'm getting at 100708 ... . totally wasn't directed at you unhinged 100708 ... unhinged neither was mine . 100708 what's it to you? who go blather from