Most kids I know who are in High School spend there time quoting movie lines and using the words "Like" and "Really" every sentence. Yet Olive has the vocabulary of a Harvard Professor. If someone had that strong of a vocabulary in my High School they would have received a swift punch in the throat.
shareWhen I was in high school I used a more varied vocabulary but it doesn't sit well with most people. They mock you. Don't know why apart from feeling insecure, but I doubt that's the reason. They probably just think, as the American movies would say, you're a douche. But in certain circles (I'm thinking of the Dungeons and Dragons kind) you do get a more vibrant use of words and passion for knowledge. Not quite Emma Stone in Easy A, but it's a movie and has to make its distinction that she's a smart-arse clear.
'To God there is no zero'
I knew some kids who spoke like that in my high school, myself included.
shareI'm in high school and I know people who speak like that. I speak like that.
I agree with whoever said it doesn't sit very well with people, that's true.
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I spoke like that in high school, and still do even in college. I wasn't a nerd either. Not top of the social food chain, but not fodder for bullying and such. In fact, I was very much like Olive. Sort of a loner, had my friends but was over all pretty content with the realization that I just didn't mesh well with people my own age.
I lost count a long time ago of the amount of times my friends have given me funny looks over my vocabulary use. I just happened to have been a voracious reader since I was a little kid. That translates to a larger capacity for language and vocabulary. I thought it was integral to the character, without it how was the audience supposed to get the feel that she was a "smart-a**"?
I'm fairly sure all American high-school movies like these are vastly over-exaggerated. They're COMPLETELY different to Secondary Schools/Colleges here in England.
Speaking of which, if one of them spent just one day in a school here they'd be shocked.
I'm fairly sure all American high-school movies like these are vastly over-exaggerated. They're COMPLETELY different to Secondary Schools/Colleges here in England.Why? What's so shocking?
Speaking of which, if one of them spent just one day in a school here they'd be shocked.
when I was in high school, I knew people who spoke this way. And believe me, my high school was not the most advanced. I also spoke this way when I was in high school and still do from time to time. The thing is, around most people you cannot speak this way because 1) you look like a superior person (who's trying to be an ass by showing how much more intelligent you are) or 2) people just get annoyed because they don't necessarily understand what you're saying.
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