Pedantic Speech Fan Club

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i absolutely love pedantic, verbose speech--the more formal, the better! i used to be ashamed of it and tried to curb this tendency in myself when i began to understand that generally this mode of communication was not actually preferred by other people. now that i have received my diagnosis and am in the process of educating myself about my asperger's, i try to celebrate these tendencies rather than subvert them.

Pedantic speech is a very precise and beautiful way of speaking. Listening to someone speaking pedantically is like admiring a beautiful mathematical equation, or a Bach fugue, or someone speaking Italian.

I'm not big on the whole idea of using uncommon words. We have plenty of words available to us, and confusing listeners isn't a good idea.

Language is for communication, and we don't need people muddling it up and confusing listeners. I try my best to be quite clear with people, and end up explaining the ideas I am trying to convey in many different ways. I'm with George Orwell on this one: clarity!

As an art, speak however it is you enjoy I guess.. But if you want people to understand what you mean, explain it clearly, please! This doesn't mean "dumbing it down", and if you think so, then I'd have to call you an elitist.

They could well have been the "original lecturers".

Perhaps this kind of precision could have been very important for telling other members of the tribe where new food/resources were located?

I do find some comfort in talking like this. I often talk like this when meeting new people, I try to appear as civilised and polite as possible. Talking like this makes me feel as if the situation is under my control. I like being in control.