Quote Originally Posted by Huntington View Post
A large vocabulary is one of my strong-suits, because a word might not fit it's literal Encyclopedia Britannica usage does not mean I can't easily use both words in a similar context. Exceptional, Fantastic, Superb, Phenomenal. Any of those could be supplemented for "Great". Because Decent might have a different listed description does not mean they aren't still similar in some facets.

"Oh hey did you go see that new movie? I thought it was pretty great."
"Ehh, it was decent I suppose."

So Dude A thinks it was Great, Dude B said it was only decent. Therefore someone doesn't know how to use rudimentary English because two words weren't identical to the point that you can't make a distinction between them. That about right?
If you're going to claim to look educated in your posts, I have no qualms tearing them apart.

1) "Strong suit" should not be hyphenated.

2) Your first sentence is a run-on sentence.

3) It's is the contraction for it is. What you want here is its.

4) Encyclopedia Britannica, as a title of an encyclopedia, should be italicized.

5) You should avoid starting noun clauses with because. Even if you want to argue that it's grammatically correct, you'll meet a lot of opposition. Of course, opposition to your ideas should be nothing new to you at this point.

6) Your second sentence is a fragment.

7) Each of those words has its own connotations. While each may be somewhat similar to great, to say that they are completely interchangeable is dishonest.

8) The first sentence of your dialogue is missing two commas.

9) The second one is missing another comma.

10) Your first sentence after the dialogue is a run-on. In addition, it's missing a comma.

11) In the same sentence, you capitalize one word you're talking about, but you don't capitalize the other. There's no reason to capitalize either word. Besides which, this sentence shows a lack of consistency.

12) The next sentence is missing a comma.

Well, that's a dozen mistakes over three short paragraphs from someone who claims he looks educated in his posts. I wonder what would happen if I scrutinized all of your posts in this thread.