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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Nah, that’s definitely pretentious. The simplest way to say that is “You’re just attacking me and not addressing my point.” Plus then you don’t have to use the phrases “ad hominem” or “thus, not relevant!”
Again, we’re having conversations. This isn’t a classroom. No grades will be rewarded.
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it would be one thing if you were being wordy for the sake of being wordy and lording your suposed intellectual superiority over someone...but this is literally just using a concise word that has an applicable meaning in the given context
intentionally dumbing down the conversation and using a bunch of words to describe a thing instead of just saying the thing just seems pointless to me, but im apparently in the minority here