On the other hand

[joegoda]

I find people that use the word 'plethora' to be pretentious. Then again, the use of the word pretentious may be a bit pretentious, yes?

Comments

[valfatale.livejournal.com]

....I said fecundity the other night and didn't even realize it was weird until the whole table stopped talking and stared at me.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Fecundity is okay, I would say. See, it's not one of those words that has been 'done' to death. Plethora has had a plethora of pathetic plethoric users. It's almost like they don't know how to say "A lot", because they think that Plethora sounds somehow more 'Hip'.

[capi.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I confess, this made me laugh out loud. Fecundity is a theoretical word in my vocabulary, meaning i know it, but i've never brought it out of storage and activated it. Those people were wondering if you were cursing at them. LOL!!