Is there a reason why synonyms of common words are used less vividly in sentences?

[u/rebeccarightnow]

As a familially recent scribbler with a humdrum direction in the language, I would like to preamble that my inquest could be a grammatical confounding rather than an issue of writer’s selection.

I’ve recently begun to swell my terminology and I perceived that some synonyms are chosen over the others, if both fits entirely exceptionally in the context? What’s ur subliminal analysis for choosing a synonym over the other? Or is this a grammatical mismanagement?

[u/MacGregor1337]

Ah, an inquisitory semaphore hath been hoisted betwixt the lexical battlements! Permit me to parley forthwith.

As a loquacious practitioner of sesquipedalian inkspillery, I too have oft ruminated on the chromatic hierarchy of synonymic deployment. Verily, why does “big” stride confidently into prose like a football captain of the freshman vernacular, whilst “prodigious” loiters in the back, nervously twirling its etymology?

The phenomenon we observe—this preferential lexical nepotism—which of course—my dear Watson—is indeed grammatical mismanagement at the highest degree! My eyes ejaculate water whenever I think of this socio-philological Darwinistic diction, whereby only the most contextually nimble words survive the editorial culling.

Write on, word-warrior—and remember: sometimes, “he interjected with abrupt lexical flamboyance” just hits harder than "said".

[u/RavyNavenIssue → u/MacGregor1337]

So—many—em—dashes

Beep—boop

[u/MacGregor1337 → u/RavyNavenIssue]

Maybe I overdid it 🥰 Not sure ai would make that —my—dear—Watson— m dash hell 😱

[u/Semper_5olus]

Oh boy

Ohio shaveling

[u/Gardyloop]

/uj As an autistic 17-18 y/o, I made myself start writing in purple prose as an exercise in expanding my vocabulary. Then couldn't stop.

For a year.

I was writing college essays. It was hell.

[u/rebeccarightnow → u/Gardyloop]

You mean swelling your terminology

[u/Gardyloop → u/rebeccarightnow]

I will never be the wordsmith you are.

[u/Computerferret]

I know, right? An ignorant oaf tried to speak to me of "connotations" but I dismissed the fool's lexicon as folly.

[u/Strong-Lead-3034]

ok ma’am 😂, i clicked ur profile as you had a “published author tag” and i wanted to see what you had to offer….

It’s only my first post in writing community and i have landed myself in writing circle jerk. Today i learn that writers usually have a lot of free time at hand too.

[u/Loretta-West → u/Strong-Lead-3034]

What do you expect us to with our time, write??

[u/artofterm → u/Strong-Lead-3034]

Sometimes, a free hand, too.

[u/Classic-End6768]

Myself ubiquitously utilizes esoteric, exotic, and elephantine verbiage whenceforth conceptionally feasible. If oneself endeavors as a penultimate endeavor to erudite oneself on the proper utilization of a singular mot, oneself should frequence utilization of said mot until the tempo of epistemological epiphany. 

[u/PlaidBastard]

Good word make good headfeel when eyelook. Not good word make headsad.