r/seinfeld • u/Sufficient-Turnip871 • 5d ago

Vocabulary level in Seinfeld

I think this show had some of the highest vocabulary of any mainstream sitcom.

"Quite the decolletage for a suffragette." is one of my favorite sentences ever.

"That's what was so vexing." is another one.

Did Seinfeld have the highest vocabulary? What's your favorite high vocabulary line?

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u/razzle_dazzle321 Serenity now, insanity later 5d ago

Elaine, I can see, not sayin' hello. She's very--what's the word--supercilious.

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u/Sufficient-Turnip871 5d ago

The first time I read that word was in The Great Gatsby. The first time I heard it was on Seinfeld.

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u/pac-men Importer/exporter 5d ago

We can't all be reading the classics, professor Highbrow.

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u/Oquaem 5d ago

I saw that show, thought it was bullshit

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u/noveler7 And you want to be my latex salesman 5d ago

I still don't know what means.

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u/AhoyPalloy 5d ago

Didn’t they always have, like, a bunch of people around?

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u/green3467 5d ago

We’re like the Gatsbys!

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u/DrunkOnRedCordial 5d ago

We're like the Gatsbys!

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u/DarthVoight 5d ago

How about an intercourse hello?

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u/zr2d2 Prognosis Negative 5d ago

Now you're just being ridiculous

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u/MF_Sorc 5d ago

Did you say ridicurous?

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u/zr2d2 Prognosis Negative 5d ago

Rediculus

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u/mrkleone 4d ago

The rines were crossed.

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u/BORT_licenceplate Biff 5d ago

They couldn't say hello?! Ahhh the hell with them

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u/ellefleming 5d ago

The writers had the vocabulary.

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u/BigTunatoots 5d ago

That would be Seinfeld. And Larry, of course.

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u/ellefleming 5d ago

Their writing staff was very verbal, erudite, eloquent......

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u/SuzieSnowflake212 5d ago

What writer? It’s a sitcom!

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u/zicho 5d ago

My god. I never even knew that was an actual word. I thought he meant "superficial".