While I know everyone has spoken in a weird accent, silly phrases and such, not many people talk about their common speech being weird.

What I'd like to discuss, is the common words and phrases you say that look or feel weird.

For me personally, unless it's a poem I write very simple and dislike use of a bunch of complicated words when I can say it clearer in plain simple English, however I have a strange tendency to use random big words.
My most common "big words" are therefor, however, mitigate, thus (who uses this nowadays anyways?), and occasionally using as in weird ways, which I don't even know if are grammatically correct.

How about you? Have you ever used words that are strange for your vocabulary? This includes anything from using a foreign word instead of a native word to using words that look out of place (eg. using 4th grade English with occasional college level words).

Note: If it's a non-English word, be sure to translate it as well =)
Also, I put this here as it's not specifically related to written language but to spoken too.

I find some words in English very hard to use correctly.


Like "well" instead of "good", and sometimes apostrophes. Like "it's" is "it is", but belonging to it is "its". D:
And the word "episode" isn't confusing, but it sounds funny. :P

True episode does sound weird o.o never thought about that...
Its, it's, it is, should be taught as heavily as there their and they're... they're just as poorly used.

I remember one time in my Japanese class our teacher had taught us the word for "thank you", but as it was a hard word she gave us a very odd way to remember it which has made that word very funny and awkward for me. Doitashimashite sounds very similar to a fast mumbled form of "Don't touch my mustache" XD. So even if it's a normal word o.o it feel so very weird to say it...

(off to bed, be back after school)

Hahahahaha ~
I've actually never heard that before, and I'm Japanese.

I've been sitting here trying to say it like that and it does work.
XDD

'Kay, sleep well. ^^

@ Kaze - thats how my friend Anna (we took Japanese together in high school) remembered 'thank you'. "don't touch my mustache" *giggles*

For some reason I always thought the word 'food' sounded weird. It's just 'fo-od'...

@ Har - Well that's most likely because it was taught in a class for English speakers to learn Japanese, and yes it somehow works @[email protected]

@ Syr - Really? Than that's a very commonly used method of teaching then... however weird o.o

I get told a lot that I talk weird. I ask people about it and they say they don't know why but I just do. I think it's the way I word stuff. I tend to word things very simply then repeat it in a more complex way.

I find a lot of curse words weird honestly.
In Russian, it seems as though half of the language consists of curse words. And because of that, in my opinion, most Russians sound rude most of the time~
And when I mix English with Russian, everyone says I sound weird because I talk like an American, which means I slur some words, or something of the sort...or that I'm impossible to understand.
I guess you can say British is more accepted here = . = *sigh*
I've had one Russian understand me so far though! : D That's progress already~

What does mitigate mean? I use however/thus/therefor too, and even nor > . <

kimu - Oh... yeah I've used nor quit a bit too...
Mitigate means lessen... which I had looked up in a thesaurus back in 9th grade or so... somehow it stuck...
I've always seen swearing used completely un-definitionally so I tend to consider it nt even part of a language... (I tend to make up my own words combined with pre/suffix a lot too o.o)

Mystic - People don't really tell me that I talk weird very much... o.o I generally get people just plain telling me I am weird... XD (Then again I'm an anti-social person so I figure if I talked more they'd probably say I talked weird too)

My family is mainly from the countryside, and I was raised there for a while as a child. This has lead me to develop a really weird Country/Transatlantic Accent combination.

Depending on where I first learned the word I'll pronounce it differently- so more complicated sentences I usually can pull of pretty normally but when I'm talking to kids or just short phrases my country accent kicks in.

That being said the words 'tree', 'fire', and 'lilac' have always bothered me more so than any others.

What you've described doesn't sound unusual at all to me. It just sounds like you've been deprived of good conversation, since none of the "big words" you've described are really above a tenth-grade level. (I use them, my family does, my friends etc.)
When there is no English equivalent to a word of a foreign language, I'll generally say the foreign word- for example, "schadenfreude," a very well-known German word referring to your pleasure in someone's unhappiness. But people have done it for centuries- just last night, Scott (a director I know) was trying to explain what raison d'etre meant to a bunch of fuckass high school students who were blissfully naive about everything. The problem was his overt arrogance about using words like "lexicon," which just disgusted me. People that think they're especially eloquent or skilled in using "big words" (I always thought the use of THAT phrase was hilarious) are most often not, or mediocre- but that never stops them from getting so puffed up about it they look like indignant chickens.

Oh, I use "schadenfreude" all the time. This isn't really a "weird" way of talking, but I have a mouth like a sailor (or a mill worker, whichever is more applicable). =/ I know how to rein it in when necessary; for example, when speaking to a professor (unless said professor swears a lot too) or a boss. I feel awkward, though, because most of the girls I go to college with don't swear AT ALL. I've been told it's sort of endearing and makes me less intimidating than other girls, especially since I'm pretty girly in most other ways. As an English major, I enjoy making up insults that don't have any cursing in them, but there are situations where only a well-enunciated "FUCK" will do. ^^;

heres alot of words that i can not say in English. also when i get really board i start to talk in poetic with an English accent. and depending on the movie i watch ill actually talk in the the nationality or dialect of the movie

What you read is more or less how I talk, as long as I'm being serious (and most of the time even when I'm being ridiculous). I think people have commented on it, but... it's not like anything I say is particularly strange for my vocabulary. I think it's a bit "old school" but... I also think it's a good thing, because I think language is seriously deteriorating now, to the point where people are now having trouble conveying what they mean, because they haven't got the right words at their command, or enough words. Mostly they seem to have four letter words. (And sometimes they even misspell those.)

I remember writing a story, and letting a friend read it, and this guy could barely read at all. It was really kind of inspiring to watch his reading improve and his understanding of words, as he was trying to read this thing. I don't think it would help anyone to write stupidly, so what about talking stupidly? Should we all just forget what all of the words mean, and become unable to really communicate together? Or should people who realize it's important to hold onto those words, try to keep using them?

The more people use slang and dirty words as a way of communicating, as a rule, (that is, in place of other words) the less they will actually be able to tell other people by their words what they really think and feel about things. That's the truth. Today there are already people who no longer have the words they need to really communicate. Who wants to join them?

If I repeat a word 5 or more times, it sounds completely foreign to me.
Try it out, repeat a word like "clothes" or "hanger" long enough and it sounds so odd.
Or maybe.....I'm just weird. XD

I use a lot of high class sounding words because I am a writer and I like to pay attention to my words so what I am saying sounds the way I prefer. I use words such as 'thus', and 'therefor' but depending on what I am discussing I also use typical young person language such as 'totally' and 'awesome' and 'OMG', even swear words.

I also tend to use a lot of British slang despite being American such as 'Bloody hell', 'daft', 'brilliant', and 'bloody brilliant'. I just think it's fun and it's cool.

I'm a writer as well, though I prefer to adhere to Stephen King's idea that "you'll never say 'John stopped long enough to perform an act of excretion' when you mean 'John stopped long enough to take a shit.'" That quote is from "On Writing," by the way--an excellent book that I would recommend to any writer.

Hehe of course; I am not THAT particular with my wording.