Big words

[socrato]

Why must you all use big words. You can't honestly say you talk the way you write?!

[Victor Eremita]

Dasein, as constituted by disclosedness, is essentially in the truth. Disclosedness is a kind of Being which is essential to Dasein. There is truth only in so far as Dasein is and so long as Dasein is. Entities are uncovered only when Dasein is and only as long as Dasein is, are they disclosed. Using big words, Using technical terms, any thing whatsoever--these are true as long as Dasein is. For in such a case truth as disclosedness, uncovering, and uncoveredness, cannot be. Before big words were used, they were not 'true'; it does not follow that they were false, or even that they would become false if ontically no discoveredness were any longer possible. Just as little does this 'restriction' imply that the Being-true of 'truths' has in any way been diminished.

Get it?

[socrato]

No! I thought you might use smaller words to explain why you use big words

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by socrato

Why must you all use big words. You can't honestly say you talk the way you write?!

I use bigger words when I talk at work. I need to use words like palivizumab, appendicolith, nystagmus, macroglobulinemia, hyperaldosteronism, encephalomalacia, osteophytes, and hypothalamohypophyseal.

[Theaetetus]

Originally Posted by socrato

No! I thought you might use smaller words to explain why you use big words

I have a sort word you may understand--ban. Sounds like a nice solution to your problem of big words.

[socrato]

Wow, are you like an Einstein kinda guy or something. So you'd know how to cure cancer maybe???? Or is there a cure yet?

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by socrato

Wow, are you like an Einstein kinda guy or something.

It's just my job. Everyone in medicine knows these words.

So you'd know how to cure cancer maybe???? Or is there a cure yet?

Cancer is not one disease. It's hundreds of different diseases that all have some common biological features. Some are curable, some aren't. I'm not a cancer specialist, though I treat a lot of infections in cancer patients. AIDS is one of my specialties, though, and there is no cure for that.

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by Theaetetus

I have a sort word you may understand--ban. Sounds like a nice solution to your problem of big words.

Not nice. Give our young friend here a break and engage him in a discussion that's useful for him, please.

[Zetetic11235]

Big words means big ideas in fewer words. When big ideas are strung together under one word, and you understand the big words, you can take much more complicated ideas that would need 200 small words per sentence and avoid overloading the mind by forcing it to hold somthing too bulky. The brain can only handle so many words strung together to make an idea, exceed that limit and information gets jumbled/lost. For instance, try to read the 200 word sentences in the U.S. tax code. Then you can complain about useless jargon.

See, I could write that paragraph. or simply:
Etymologic progression by necessity due to biological/nuerological limitations impedeing communication in cases of sentences of great length. Just look at the U.S. tax code if you want to see obscurantism explicity.

[Didymos Thomas]

Big words have their usefulness.

This is a friendly forum. If someone uses a word you do not understand, google the word. If you're still unsure about the word, just ask. We're all here to learn, and learning new vocabulary is part of that learning.