Karakand's diction vomit journal

[Kara]

Gonna use this to LJ since mac having a rough bit of it in Random Talk.

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This thread was already a journal anyway.

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Basically said, that boy needs (logo)therapy instead. No fucking shit, amirite?

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[benjipwns]

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I gave them permission by signing some form to discuss me with each other, but they still do things this way, it's like some kind of passive aggressive mental health care.

[Kara]

I did the same thing! (Especially since I usually don't have 2 professionals simultaneously.)

They don't do my job, why I gotta do theirs too?

[benjipwns]

The part I hate about that is going in to talk about meds and he's all "how have things been going" and I'm trying to remember like three to six weeks worth and summarize it and I can only really remember like the last week or so and how I feel that day colors everything. When he probably could have called up the other guy and spent five minutes getting some deets/opinions from his records.

[Kara]

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[benjipwns]

Yeah, the short sessions really play into that. You spend like five or ten minutes jabbering in almost generic terms and then a couple minutes deciding what to do with the meds and schedule an appointment. Last few times it's felt like him trying to schedule an appointment took ten times as long as making the semi-predetermined by standard schedule med decisions. 

Though I imagine most people wouldn't want to spend 90% of the time discussing all the various medications and pondering options like I do and just want to push a complain button, something awesome has to happen. So they go by the schedule tables. Though my guy has slowly been moving towards offering up more of those choices than just "keep the same or change? up the dose?" after we found out I'm basically invincible to Lexapro and its family and I was frustrated enough to be like "let's just try something from a complete other side of the spectrum instead of tinkering around the edges."

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So he gave me fifty bucks and an address for a bridge to buy crack under.

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[Kara]

"Push a complain button, something awesome happens." -BioWare ca. 2019

Seriously though, that sucks breh (and it's scary). Do you think you were always invincible to it or just built a tolerance over time?

Stay safe, pls.

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I already have dibs on being the Bore's DFW. White Man was stripped of this privilege in absentia by a people's tribunal.

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[benjipwns]

Might be something like natural tolerance, it only did anything for like the first week where I got more sleepy and stuff for a bit which every medication seems to do when I first start it, and we kept upping the dose and it wasn't doing a thing. So finally he was like, carefully double your dose for a week and see if you feel any change whatsoever and if the change is bleeding out your eyeballs go to the hospital. Nope, bupkis. So he gave me another thing, that I forget the name of, but it's like basically the same active drug with slight changes in the rest of the pill to confirm, and he basically said that I must be a one percenter. (Like I didn't already see the 2012 election results.)

[Kara]

So he gave me another thing, that I forget the name of, but it's like basically the same active drug with slight changes in the rest of the pill to confirm, and he basically said that I must be a one percenter. (Like I didn't already see the 2012 election results.)

[Kara]

(I was drinkin slivovitz while building furniture in my underwear cuz it's so fucking hot.)

[benjipwns]

(I was drinkin slivovitz while building furniture in my underwear cuz it's so fucking hot.)

Yeah, it is. 

[Kara]

This morning was so bad. I'd say it was diction ass vomit instead of my usual diction vomit.

I really wish I'd recorded the conversation because I can't even remember a tenth of it, but I do remember it was after .

[Kara]

Took Green Shinobi's bad advice to write something. Check out this grade A bullshit.

I yen not to impart Kantian sanctimony when I tell you this, nor offer counsel of a paternalistic character; I speak only as one who has, does, and always shall—inveterate for a century of centuries.

[Rufus]

Shawn Elliott came close to this thesaurus baiting style in his reviews back in the day. I still want to slap him for it. He does it even on Twitter when he's not posting cringe videos or weird pictures (which is why I check in).

[Kara]

9/8/14
Approximately 14:00

"A veritable smorgasbord."

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I had to follow up the blank stare I received with, "Many things."

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[Barraco Barner]

I like your words.

[Yeti]

I've used the phrase "veritable smorgasbord" before, and I'm a dumb. Don't feel too badly about that one.

[Rufus]

Yeah, even second language learners like me know that one. If anything you lose some style points for using something that looks suspiciously like a common phrase.

[Kara]

I think it's pretty obvious that every post in this thread loses me points.

[Rufus]

Well...

[Joe Molotov]

I just want to voice my disapproval of this Sovok dude taking over Karakand's thread

Shit ain't right

It's long been speculated that the original Karakand posts are pseudepigraphical, and that Karakand himself may have never even existed.

[chronovore]

9/8/14
Approximately 14:00

"A veritable smorgasbord."

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I had to follow up the blank stare I received with, "Many things."

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I've used the phrase "veritable smorgasbord" before, and I'm a dumb. Don't feel too badly about that one.

Surprisingly commonplace and trite. Looks more like something I'd write. 

[T234]

My favorite was "why don't your conference get honest and have a real CCG?"

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Yes I know.

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[Kara]

SECamus was one of my all-time greatest moments. (Even if no one got the joke of using "upcoming" instead of "up and coming".)

[benjipwns]

Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006), Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly. Appl. Cognit. Psychol., 20: 139–156.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.1178/abstract;jsessionid=118732DD192C65C0DF5AE2A1D8CD7E04.f03t03
http://personal.stevens.edu/~rchen/creativity/simple%20writing.pdf

[Kara]

Knickerbocker uses parsimony in his first sentence and then tries to write a paper fronting.

[Kara]

On a serious note, I'd just like to say that in my (limited) anecdotal experience I agree with the broad premise of that paper.

e.g. My sibling was not raised in the same manner as I was* and when they'd ask me to read their school papers it was quite obvious that they were using words they'd fished out of a thesaurus to conceal their poor writing instead of just writing well or reviewing their work as a whole and looking for areas of weakness... you spent that much time looking for words to replace, why not look for ways to improve your content?

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In case you missed the origin story awhile back, my parents never talked to me like I was a child when I was a child--even a small one--because that's the obvious thing to do. The consequence of this is that I will inadvertently gravitate to words from a high register in English because they seem natural to me even though they're inappropriate for the circumstance or subject. I can understand why people think I'm whipping out a thesaurus or trying to front but you can't understand how crippling it is to think amenable is a perfectly acceptable every day word. Contra, consider my use of the word itinerant which I formally learned in school for SAT prep. I know that's not a normal word and I know exactly what it means (people don't get that I don't actually know the exact meanings of a lot of these words, I only have a feel for them derived from contextual childhood reasoning) and thus rarely use it.

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OT: I forgot to forward myself the email and pick out the choice bits for this thread, (it'll have to wait until next week sadly) but I had to communicate on behalf of one of the nonprofits I work with in writing today (this is a rare occurrence) and that shit was rank in its punctiliousness brehs.

I'm glad I only consciously draw from the well in representative situations or when I'm angry, I'd be even more of a recluse otherwise.

[Rufus]

(people don't get that I don't actually know the exact meanings of a lot of these words, I only have a feel for them derived from contextual childhood reasoning)

Implicit learning is boss.

[benjipwns]

On a serious note, I'd just like to say that in my (limited) anecdotal experience I agree with the broad premise of that paper.

e.g. My sibling was not raised in the same manner as I was* and when they'd ask me to read their school papers it was quite obvious that they were using words they'd fished out of a thesaurus to conceal their poor writing instead of just writing well or reviewing their work as a whole and looking for areas of weakness... you spent that much time looking for words to replace, why not look for ways to improve your content?

I like when they use the thesaurus in Word and don't actually check the meaning of the word.

[Kara]

It means liar in a made up language. Seemed fitting at 3 whatever this morning when I was reading the book it came from.

Operating your personal brand through shell companies.

[Rufus]

Sigh, I don't know about you, man, but I like you.

[Yeti]

 

at least you kept the avatar the same

[Kara]

Since people have real problems / grief in Random Talk and this thread is now just a place to express dislike of my personal brand(s)...

My therapist and shrink refusing to talk to one another has become so bad the former insists that I should get a second opinion instead of just talking to the latter about why they have the medical opinion that they do.

SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG IF I'M THE ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM(S) WITH A PASSING RESEMBLANCE TO AN ADULT IN A SITUATION.

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I also hate wasting precious session time being a messenger / devil's advocate.

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On a more nefarious note, and in light of my newfound lease on life (which in actuality is my old, cretinous lease on life), my therapist telling me they didn't know how they could do their job without being able to help their patients was taken by my subconscious as a sadistic challenge instead of something to hope for.

[Kara]

I just said "parlance" like it was a French word instead of what it is. (i.e. With a voiced uvular frictive for the R.)

Then I followed this up by saying the "franc" in "Swiss franc" like it was a French word, which at least it is, but still.

KILL ME NOW

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This client and I have a never ending passive aggressive back and forth whenever we talk about Bern, they say it the German way and I say it the French way which they think is wrong and correct my pronunciation the way a person who gives a shit about the can/may distinction will correct someone. HELVETICA IS A PLURALISTIC NATION. RECOGNIZE, MEC.

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[Madrun Badrun]

SECamus was one of my all-time greatest moments. (Even if no one got the joke of using "upcoming" instead of "up and coming".)

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joseph gordon-levitt has not aged well. 

[Kara]

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/4440812771.html

Fuck you Esch. This shit turned me the fuck on and I can't do nothing about it because I'm not a fucking Trot and can't even pretend to be one.

[Kara]

10/30/14
Approximately 19:45

"I like your shirt."
"It's a telnyashka."
"What's that?"
"A shirt."

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Insert Esch 1 liner here.

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Fucking love this shirt. I'm going to by an OMON one to go along with my naval one I think.

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