The 'Yobbest

Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.

I'm pretty sure Invicta was a latin name too?

It was, but it was far far far less in-your-face about it.

Looks like you need a chill axe. This isn't yobby at all.

you'd be surprised at what can come out of the yob on occasion~

There are many, many other ways of expressing the same idea without being obnoxiously obscure and mystical.

Using one word in the place of three equates to being obnoxious, obscure and mystical?

You are really stretching it.

"Advanced" words exist for a reason; to enable a conciseness that leads to more effective communication than wordy sentences. Yes, there are some people who will simply look through a thesaurus in order to add some faux glitter to their words, but to condemn every single use of such words would be to deny the very reason for their existence, and that is utter folly.

Seriously, these words are neither "smart" nor "advanced". They are simply words - they have a meaning, and that meaning is used to convey some idea. Having such a knee-jerk reaction against their use is irrational, and trying to automatically attribute a pretentious desire for self-promotion as the motive behind them is illogical too.

I think you need a bit of a reality check here. The world does not revolve around you and your cynicism.

man, i need to remember to stop reading anything that Voytek blogs.

Using one word in the place of three equates to being obnoxious, obscure and mystical?

Yep! Amazing, I know.

man, i need to remember to stop reading anything that Voytek blogs.

Good, that makes us even.

I realise that nothing I can say will actually make people exercise a bit of self-awareness in their posting but hey, being able to let off steam like this is one of the few things that keeps me sane (and unbanned, probably).

From what i remember, their reasoning was this:

"We lost in the last war, so we aren't Invicta anymore, so we're now calling ourselves Regnum Invictorum"

I don't like it, but that's their pick.

Yep! Amazing, I know.

Good, that makes us even.

I realise that nothing I can say will actually make people exercise a bit of self-awareness in their posting but hey, being able to let off steam like this is one of the few things that keeps me sane (and unbanned, probably).

so you are saying you get that worked up in RL over this? really? wow.

so you are saying you get that worked up in RL over this? really? wow.

ur rite thats totaly what i sed, nossir no hyperbole in site!!

Big words are fine as long as they make sense. Who cares if they're self-promoting? I'd prefer someone to speak with a certain degree of class and flaunt their knowledge than sit back and use simple words to express their feelings.

I can relate to the annoying side of it too, however. It annoys me when people think they're better than they are and attempt to enhance their image by using a dictionary, but it's fairly obvious when that happens. Their words will look stunted.

If everyone decided to not use their intelligence to save face, what would the world look like?