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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

you avail yourself of eloquent parlance for you cannot recall simpler vocabulary
i partake in sophisticated linguistics for it is greatly entertaining
we are not the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Weird. This isnt the meIRL community...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"This is a complex subject with a lot of subtleties. We have to choose the right words to make sure we avoid misunderstandings. Any sufficiently developed topic has a language all its own."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sir, this is literally a Wendy's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We were arguing about putting fries in the frosty. I was against it because it's structurally unsound.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Blasphemous. Dipping fries into the Frosty improves both the fries and the Frosty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It gets worse the more deviations you get away from the mean:

Scientists and other academics who often pride themselves on their rhetoric act in peculiar ways when they're challenged on their assumptions with sources.

Normally, you'd expect the open-minded to be like: "Wow, that's something I hadn't considered! Thanks for expanding my intellectual horizons!"

Instead its: "You completely invalidated my work, you fuckwit! We're going to lose funding!"

Always be kind to everyone you meet. C:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is been literally decades, so I'm forgetting, but that particular case had some arguments regarding the turgid state of penises. I read a brief from this case, because my relative was like, this is silly, you'll enjoy it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

chariots chariots

Oh, good. We've got Prime Cave Johnson this time!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Damn, no one ever put it into words like that but this describes me perfectly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I never pontificated like that, but you're utterly correct.

I find it inconceivable that when I stirred from my bedchamber this morning, that I would find myself with an appeal to my senses that would brighten my day.

obliged

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same energy as "your English is so good". No, I just don't know normal words.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I just don't know normal words.

As an ESL, I felt that in my bones. One time my boss asked me to get the pail to water the plants and my only exposure to that word had been the wailmer pail from the Pokémon games that I misremembered as a "whalepail". It was awkward trying to explain why I was stumped.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's interesting, they used to think that having a big vocabulary or knowing multiple languages delayed having Alzheimer's. It turns out that family often first become aware that a person is developing Alzheimer's because the person starts regularly forgetting common words, but people with big vocabularies can come up with alternatives when they can't remember one, so their family doesn't recognize it as early. When those people are diagnosed, they end up being further along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Awesome, I now need to get tested for another thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There was a Basic Instructions comic about exactly this, but unfortunately the only thing I can remember about it is that the protagonist describes someone's hair as "turgid" and "basic instructions turgid hair" isn't getting many relevant results.

Also, is "chariots chariots" related to the rest of the post or am I just oblivious?

edit: s/coming/comic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of my lawyer relative talking about defending a case involving undercover cops and strip clubs. "Turgid" is a legal concept, I guess. Honestly I think that's very stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently it can mean "excessively embellished in style or language," so I guess if you were to describe a legally contested situation in a ... Turgid manner, it could distort any case made based on your testimony? IANAL, so that's just a wild swing at the appropriate application based on one web search.

Preemptive aside: I've seen lots of jokes made, so for anyone not familiar, IANAL is neither sexual nor any kind of innuendo or entendre.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, that particular legal brief that I read, which was written by "real lawyers", used "turgid" in reference to genitalia. The argument had something to do with the intent of undercover officers in strip clubs. I've forgotten why the cops were there to begin with, but my relative has a career in representing cops when they did illegal and horrible stuff. I am NOT defending any of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I feel this in my soul.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i like when people use big words cause then i can learn a new word. it's nice knowing words to say stuff with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i like using big words as an excuse to teach them!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I write a lot of fantasy, and that definitely affects my practical vocabulary. I don't think the specificity is needless though, especially in English, this Frankenstein of cognates and loaner words. You have so many options because the human experience is so diverse and multifaceted. Clarity helps, and it makes language more beautiful, something we should all strive for

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

An ex once told me her mother wasn’t a fan because talking to me was like talking to a thesaurus.

Yeah, well, Donna, your daughter decided to start fucking me because I was the only person who could consistently beat her at words with friends.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Words with friends with benefits

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I had a girlfriend try to make me speak differently because I embarrassed her by using big words in front of others. The company you keep eh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I both

  • do that too, and
  • can also see how it comes across as pretentious.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Back then I was a mess socially. I'm still an introvert but I code switch like a pro. I only break out the big vocab with close friends who know I'm not trying to look smart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There's an episode of Northern Exposure where a young woman says to Ed "give me your words" in a very sexual way. It's outrageously funny, and simultaneously insightful.

If you've never watched it, the writers are all about studying people, warts and all. Very thought-provoking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's me, but also with english words instead of my native language's ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've noticed that many fluent English speakers who had a different native language come across as better speakers than English natives.

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