User blog comment:Illyrias Acolyte/Big Words in Creepypasta/@comment-5579451-20121009123329

'ello!

I'd like to see the said story regarding a narrator using large words. However, I have my side of this issue, but keep in mind that I don't know which story has used that, and I have only a few things to support me.

It depends on the educational level of the narrator. Yes, there are people who are taught words such as 'ominous' and other 'fancy schmancy words' with common meanings, such as palpable and dilapidated. Serpentaxy400 and Extra Floofy Cyrathilian both have correct ideas. Using myself as an evidence, I have read several stories, irrelevant to Creepypasta, which I have only been informed of when I started school in 2012, in Australia, and they each had big words. By seeing the 'big' words, the person would usually look into a thesaurus, or a dictionary, and realise the meaning of the word, making them use it at some points in time.

In my point of view, the person in the story you have read was a well-informed young man, who had the ability to speak more comprehensive words in comparison to the common mind. But then again, there are many people in his level. However, once again, it will depend on the educational level, which is the main factor in narration. Of course you may see Jamaican men, not stoned ones, narrating stories with the word 'man' pronounced as 'mon' written all over, but then there would be some more-informed Jamaican men in comparison that would not use the word 'man' in such form, and instead would have a more comprehensive point rather than saying mon all over.

Point being, the educational level of the narrator is a large factor, and it will most definitely affect how the story is read, and whether or not it is in the types of a diary entry or a spoken monologue or dialogue in a story.