User talk:Takatoriyama

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- Mailer Diablo 16:59, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: sophomoric kanchos

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "obscure", but that's how the word appeared to me, because I've never heard it used and it wasn't in my dictionary... :)

Now that I've looked it up in a bigger dictionary, I accept that "sophomoric" is a common word in America, and so it is doubtless well-known in countries where American English is taught. However, as it's very rare in other English-speaking countries (to the extent that it gets left out of dictionaries), it's probably best to avoid it, because there are alternatives that mean the same thing and are more widely understood.

It's not a case of dumbing down the language, merely of keeping it as international as possible. — Haeleth Talk 22:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm British.

Incidentally, I see somebody else has since removed that entire paragraph because they didn't believe it was true... :/ — Haeleth Talk 10:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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