Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"Well seeing and taking offence at none-existent slights usually highlights insecurities, as does shoe-horning a word like pseudo-intellectual in to the conversation in my experience but if there is another reason for this collective hissy fit, then so be it.'"
I didn't shoe-horn it in - it's a very common expression, down our way.
You should try to mix in more erudite circles, then you wouldn't get all uppity when people use big words and that.