| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-09 21:57:32 |

purple rain
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-09 22:26:18 |

SuperGamerz
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I have less than 100 coins. I only use coins for membership :p
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 01:15:42 |

Apollo
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i have a grand total of 1 coin, can I not have some more? ;)
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 05:19:11 |

Nate Kenobi
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 06:51:06 |

John John Johnson
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Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly Most texts on writing style encourage authors to avoid overly‐complex words. However, a majority of undergraduates admit to deliberately increasing the complexity of their vocabulary so as to give the impression of intelligence. This paper explores the extent to which this strategy is effective. Experiments 1–3 manipulate complexity of texts and find a negative relationship between complexity and judged intelligence. This relationship held regardless of the quality of the original essay, and irrespective of the participants' prior expectations of essay quality. The negative impact of complexity was mediated by processing fluency. Experiment 4 directly manipulated fluency and found that texts in hard to read fonts are judged to come from less intelligent authors. Experiment 5 investigated discounting of fluency. When obvious causes for low fluency exist that are not relevant to the judgement at hand, people reduce their reliance on fluency as a cue; in fact, in an effort not to be influenced by the irrelevant source of fluency, they over‐compensate and are biased in the opposite direction. Implications and applications are discussed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 07:09:19 |

Wulfhere
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There's a difference between using big words to elucidate something and writing long winded driveling sentences that make no more sense than had they been put simply.
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 17:48:09 |
Hypoxia
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Writing using big words does not prove one is intelligent. But writing without making any grammatical errors consistently is a better sign of intelligence, but even then it is more written/verbal intelligence or whatever you call it. :D
Edited 2018-08-10 17:48:19
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 18:13:00 |
Japanball
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That's correct. I used to know this obnoxious idiot called JuliusCaesar. We debated a lot, and, despite his repetitive use of fallacies, I didn't truly see him as a complete moron until he sent me a message in which he said that I was an imbecile because he knew of the words "fatuous" and "vacuous". Just because he used what some would consider to be more advanced vocabulary, it didn't mean he was intelligent.
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 19:37:43 |
Good morning
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Yes
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| Win my 1,261 coins: 2018-08-10 20:01:58 |

Wulfhere
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Verbal intelligence is literally vocabulary; it's how many books you've read.
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