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Originally Posted by L'Oiseau Noir
Ignoring is your best bet (and no problem for the support), because if you continue to give them a reason to carry on an "argument", they'll never drop it, or let you make a valid point. All I see pseudo-intellectualism as is a way for people to be a little bit more secure with themselves, and give them an ego booster.
You have to ask yourself: Why would you need to take every synonym you see on thesaurus.com to make a valid point, when you can just as easily make a clear, valid point using casual language? I'm not saying it hurts to use a few synonyms here and there, but when you sugar-coat everything with it, in many cases you'll lose the original meaning of your whole response. That, and I think it's just a way for people to shut other people up nice and quick so they don't have to slave through a long debate. So they attempt to confuse you, then shut you down and end it.
It's just my views on it of course, though I'm sure someone will nitpick at it and try to engage me in a long, meaningless debate about how I'm wrong and how they're indisputably right. It's an inevitable thing on these forums, unfortunately.
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Heh. I tend to agree with you on...well, all of this.
It makes me wonder what would happen in these debates if all of us were in the same room, though. That would indeed be interesting! XD