Stormy wrote:If you want people to think you know more about something, when you don't, you make a life out of calling things by anything other than what they are, and claiming that your words are better in order to know better, when in fact, they're not.
It's called escapewords. For example the word "transcendence" which doesn't apply to any existing object, but is very useful in making you "important" in the hierarchy of fellow humans, if carefully used. I discussed this matter somewhere on this forum, but I don't remember which topic it was.
Anyway, I expected an answer more linguistics-oriented, because even transcendence is after all, a noun.
