Wow. I guess Chelsea is only the second smartest woman in the world.
“It almost looks as if she writes something, and then uses a thesaurus, and simply substitutes word”
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Here’s the video of that scene in Friends when Joey writes a letter to the adoption agency on behalf of Chandler and Monica. He uses a thesaurus on every word. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUAThApzhCw
“They are warm, nice people with big hearts.”
and that became:
“They are human, pre-possessing homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps.”
signed,
“baby kangaroo..” (a.k.a. “Joey.”
LOL!
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She probably has an inferiority complex thanks to her mom’s alpha behavior and also because she knows the people she’s dealing with are well-established staffers... so she may be trying to overcompensate for her shortcoming by boosting the syllable count : the greater the ratio of high-syllable words to low-syllable words, the greater will be the impression of experience.