Just so you all know, if you're speaking in public, or writing on your little bitchy resumes about how awesome you are, or trying to appear really different or unique, for FUCK's SAKE, don't use the word "utilized." It doesn't mean what you think it does, and even if it did, it sounds weaker than just saying "used."
Utilized means to use something in a way not normally used. Like "I utilized this chair as I bludgeoned that dumbass over there to death for using the word 'utilized' improperly."
I'm seeing this in so many places now, in magazines, on car websites, on Anandtech, in even some academic textbooks (I guess that's an oxymoron) and it stinks. If you want to tighten up your language and make it look musculey, you want to avoid using such vocabulary anyway. Using big words in a grandiose manner just to use them makes you look like a fucking idiot. No one thinks you're smart, no one even thinks you're cute, just a big fat anti social sack of shit with your cargo pants and oversized tee-shirt trying to act all smart in front of everybody.
Just say "used," it's a perfectly fine word, it sounds better than "utilized," it actually means what you're trying to say. If you feel that saying the word "used" makes your insecure brain feel dumb, then just avoid framing a sentence with the word "used" in it.
Like, instead of "Professor Hawk uses the literary technique known as cunnilingus to instill a sense of foreboding in his audience..." say "Professor Hawk employs cunnilingus to manipulate his audience into feeling a sense of foreboding."
How fucking hard was that? Not only is your sentence tighter, but you actually sound like you have a fucking clue about how vocabulary is used
If you can't figure out how to do that, then just shut the fuck up, because nobody wanted to hear what you had to say in the first place.
Utilized means to use something in a way not normally used. Like "I utilized this chair as I bludgeoned that dumbass over there to death for using the word 'utilized' improperly."
I'm seeing this in so many places now, in magazines, on car websites, on Anandtech, in even some academic textbooks (I guess that's an oxymoron) and it stinks. If you want to tighten up your language and make it look musculey, you want to avoid using such vocabulary anyway. Using big words in a grandiose manner just to use them makes you look like a fucking idiot. No one thinks you're smart, no one even thinks you're cute, just a big fat anti social sack of shit with your cargo pants and oversized tee-shirt trying to act all smart in front of everybody.
Just say "used," it's a perfectly fine word, it sounds better than "utilized," it actually means what you're trying to say. If you feel that saying the word "used" makes your insecure brain feel dumb, then just avoid framing a sentence with the word "used" in it.
Like, instead of "Professor Hawk uses the literary technique known as cunnilingus to instill a sense of foreboding in his audience..." say "Professor Hawk employs cunnilingus to manipulate his audience into feeling a sense of foreboding."
How fucking hard was that? Not only is your sentence tighter, but you actually sound like you have a fucking clue about how vocabulary is used
If you can't figure out how to do that, then just shut the fuck up, because nobody wanted to hear what you had to say in the first place.
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