Have you noticed aspies often use particular phrases more

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I have noticed that when writing- not necessarily when speaking- they use some words and phrases a lot more often than other people do . For example, Ive heard a lot of aspies use the word "despise" or the phrase "I fail to understand".

Some aspies speak and type more formally. Although I speak and type in plain English.

Yes, and my [written] language can be analytically formal. Writing letters, I do use colourful phrases and language that may be sort-of antiquated for a relatively young person. I know what you mean, and Wrong Planet posts are evidence too.

If an Aspie used the word "abhor," that would be even more pedantic than word "abhor.

Some Aspies have a tendency to use "pedantic" language. It's noted in the DSM IV.

I have a tendency towards using the vernacular myself.

I might have used "I failed to understand" a few times. More frequently though, I just say, "I don't understand," "what," or even, "huh?"

Guilty

LOL....Me too--when the mood strikes me!

I hear the word "were" in place of "was".

Examples:
I were not there.
I were driving.

The only thing I've noticed is my French teacher says I have an advanced vocabulary and sentence structuring for my age.

People frequently ask me if I've "swallowed a dictionary" to comment on the fact that I apparently use advanced vocabulary or pedantic diction. I have a verbal IQ of 134, so words are one of my specialities. In my diagnostic report, it notes that I "frequently use odd words or phrases, such as "inexplicable" or "with which I'm unfamiliar"." When I don't feel like speaking much, or when I'm annoyed or worried and my words start failing me, I pull out Seven of Nine's classic one-liners to make one-word requests such as "clarify", "elaborate" or "explain".

Oh definitely! It also helped that my parents were university professors--imagine the dinner conversations: "what did you learn in school today" was an invitation to make an oral presentation. My speech tends to be so formal that my wife says I remind her of Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey, but with an Southern American accent.

With discretion, I once said "comply" to my boyfriend during a romantic encounter & with seriousness. But he somehow found that hilarious (& he's never forgotten).

I do write a bit formally. I don't have perfect grammar or anything, but some people think my writing style is a bit dry. Especially when I was asking people to critique my okcupid profile. They accused me of having no personality.

i've always been really descriptive and unique in my word choosing. compared to others around me. i read a lot as a kid, and i just use whatever words i feel accurately represent what i'm trying to say. my mom also has a very formal speaking style due to her upbringing and career, and i'm sure that influenced me.

Indeed. "Safe and effective" is one such phrase. "Racist" is a favorite word. "Climate change," "global warming" and "gun control" are others. It is like a Chatty Cathy doll with Tourette Syndrome.

Both examples may simply reflect the AS tendency to use literal language and to avoid sugarcoating. Openly acknowledging a lack of understanding is not very neurotypical, and neither is openly despising something or someone. From a neurotypical perspective literal language can easily be perceived as pedantic.

It would be interesting to perform a word frequency analysis on a large sample of texts written by different aspies, and to compare the results against other texts. I might actually give it a go when I have some spare time.

Were supposed to be pedantic, and formal. Thats probably true. I probably unconsciously over compensate myself and lean toward to the colloguial (however the hell its spelled!)myself to avoid sounding that way.

Some folks on WP write in social science jargon that can really sound odd outside of a sociology dissertation. My evidence for this is anecdotal of course!