Mxsmanic mxsmanic gmail.com wrote:

Gary H writes:

I find it mildly amusing when some people hang out in these NGs
simply to show off their vocabularies and to instigate
arguments??

Are you asking or asserting?

Some people have naturally rich vocabularies. The fact that they
use them doesn't mean that they are showing off, although it might
seem that way to people with more limited vocabularies.

It could mean that they are showing off, or maybe they don't
understand that writing is to communicate with other people.






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