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If you think using words properly and knowing and understanding common words is a bad thing, perhaps YOU are the problem?

Having knowledge and being able to hold a conversation is one of the reasons I’m NOT socially awkward. I try to understand at least a little about a lot so I’m not the guy at the party who has a blank stare when someone brings up a topic.

I recently met a nuclear physicist who started talking about targeted radiation therapy using 3-D coordinates. I immediately understood at least some of what he was talking about, because I had an oncologist explain it to me years before.
Thanks to some education and memory, I was able to offer more than just “wow”.

Are you proud to be the guy who can’t hang in a conversation?
"Wont" is not a common word. I'm never going to use it because effective communication needs to be effective. Making people admit they don't know a word is not effective communication. You thrive on out-wording people, which is either arrogance or socially-awkwardness.

Why were you the only person who couldn't understand the question? That's a direct question that I would like to hear an answer to. That's called socially awkward.

Knowing words but lacking the ability to gauge your audience effectively is socially awkward or arrogant. Vocabulary isn't the only factor of communication, nor is google. If people can't understand your words, then it is not beneficial to use them. Tell me I'm wrong.
 
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"Wont" is not a common word. I'm never going to use it because effective communication needs to be effective. Making people admit they don't know a word is not effective communication. You thrive on out-wording people, which is either arrogance or socially-awkwardness.

Why were you the only person who couldn't understand the question? That's a direct question that I would like to hear an answer to. That's called socially awkward.

Knowing words but lacking the ability to gauge your audience effectively is socially awkward or arrogant. Vocabulary isn't the only factor of communication, nor is google. If people can't understand your words, then it is not beneficial to use them. Tell me I'm wrong.
So you think I was wrong to believe the audience here was smart enough to understand the word “wont”. Are you speaking for yourself, specific people, or the whole group?

It’s funny, because people complain about things like Ebonics ruining the language, yet here you are complaining that using standard English words is a bad thing. Or, “socially-awkwardness” in your terminology.
 
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So you think I was wrong to believe the audience here was smart enough to understand the word “wont”. Are you speaking for yourself, specific people, or the whole group?

It’s funny, because people complain about things like Ebonics ruining the language, yet here you are complaining that using standard English words is a bad thing. Or, “socially-awkwardness” in your terminology.
Correct. Most people don't know the word "wont". I have never heard it in conversation. How many times do I have to tell you that?
 
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So you think I was wrong to believe the audience here was smart enough to understand the word “wont”. Are you speaking for yourself, specific people, or the whole group?

It’s funny, because people complain about things like Ebonics ruining the language, yet here you are complaining that using standard English words is a bad thing. Or, “socially-awkwardness” in your terminology.
Rob, understand that I know what wont meant and what won't meant. I have for many decades to be sure. People on this website in this forum make mistakes all the time. Why is it not appropriate to have you clarify which word you used? Is it because you think yourself infallible?
 
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