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Originally Posted by soma
When people use fancy language to sound smart, it always sounds stupid.
Necessarily - Not necessarily, don't necessarily, [whatever] necessarily.
Fancy words - Absurd, enigmatic, eclectic, etc.
In a sense - "In a sense" is annoying on its own, but when it is used with fancy words, it's super annoying (example: in an ontological sense).
Relatively - Just say very
Ironic - When used incorrectly, this just bugs me.
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I use "necessarily" because it's a part of my vernacular (fancy word alert:P ). It's not "to sound smart"; some people actually attempt to use the English language to its fullest potential. Now if you're talking about people who just throw around large or exotic words when they don't know the meaning, that's different.
Relatively also is not synonymous with "very". I'll agree on your last one though.
World's King: In addition to what Gilda said, sometimes people have nothing to say in that situation. If I'm in a situation where I'm around some people who are talking about shit that I find completely stupid/uninteresting/immature or that I'm ignorant about, I'm not going to run in and start talking for the sake of it. There's actually a quote in my sig that corresponds quite nicely to this.