User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Writer's Workshop/@comment-1874924-20100418042146

@ Sprink: your commentary is just the sort of additional perspective I was looking for when I said that I did not intend to simply hold court.

I agree that a writer shouldn't throw in big words for their own sake. In my own case, though, I use these words naturally, as I trust is evident from my writings. I got my huge vocabulary from reading, rather than from a thesaurus, so I know how to use these words (even if, in some cases, I have trouble quoting a precise definition).

Likewise, I have long been inclined to grandiloquence (that means "using big words", Jason), which is a major reason why the kids who knew me in high school called me "Spock" (after the Star Trek character, not the baby doctor).