To ask DH not to use overly formal language when speaking to me

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Two such words that he just drops into "casual" conversation when speaking to me are "hitherto" and "in perpetuity". I feel sometimes like he's talking to me as if we were discussing a legal case! I find it too formal. Most of time he's fine but using seemingly legal/formal language with me just makes my skin crawl. I've mentioned it and how it makes me feel and he thinks I'm being unreasonable. AIBU?

When I was about to go on mat leave my dad asked me how I would be spending "my confinement". Maybe I should have told him I had not hitherto made any concrete plans?

Our solicitor uses the word "alacrity" a lot.

You could suggest that as one for him to use.

Brilliant. My prick partner says "in terms of" it could be in terms of shopping or what we're having for dinner. He also rehashes something he heard on radio 4 once about the development of teenagers brains, in any situation that involves teenagers. Definitely trying to sound superior. Just sounds like a dick to me.

Is he Will Self?

YANBU

I recently did some training with a woman who KEPT saying "ascertain". So, so annoying. By the end I was dying to blurt out "CHECK! Why not just say CHECK!"

My ex used to do this as he obviously felt it made him superior. I just found it cringy and embarrassing. You're perfectly reasonable to ask him to tone it down when he talks to you

PS I should add, it was a training course that went on for weeks. I could have coped with it for one session! She wasn't even the trainer, she was a bloody trainee!

Personally I would wake up one morning and pretend I'd swallowed the dictionary and thesaurus.

Every conversation I would use the longest word I could think of or make every sentence overly wordy and start referring to myself as Madam or something equally daft

FWIW though my EX used to get pissed off with me for using long words - anything with more than 3 syllables I ditched him for multiple reasons one being his complete stubbornness and twatfuckery when I pointed out 'genre' wasn't pronounced 'jen-ear' but 'jon-ra' . So I feel your pain even if it is the other way around :/

My DH uses the word " henceforth." Like he is a 100 years old.

I'm going to go against the grain and say YABU. Unless he does it in a really pompous manner then I don't think there's anything wrong with having a broad vocabulary and using it. Much better than being with someone who doesn't know any long words or who says 'like' five times in every sentence.

My OH tried the 'with the greatest respect...' line once and I ripped the piss out of him for weeks

That's much worse than the OP's DH - everyone knows "with the greatest respect" is British for "I think you're both an idiot and wrong"

My DM used to use formal language and legalese at dinner time without realising when we were kids. Was hilarious. All of us sat there going at her over the shepherds pie.

Heretofore was a word that particularly mad DB and I fall about.

It makes your skin crawl? Really? I find that a bit odd.

I dunno. I go all polysyllabic when I'm tired. It's not ideal, but it's hardly skin-crawl fodder, surely?

my dh says hence too much, drives me insane, i have no advice other to take the piss every time he does it and make a joke if it, i always start talking like loyd grossman when he starts for some reason

With all due respect, shiny, I think you'll find that quote is similar to but isn't quite the insulting one .

DH does this a lot bit. Taking the piss helps a lot. Mainly because he has form for using the words in the wrong context, e.g. he was very fond of announcing he was full of moral turpitude. Until, that is, I made him look it up in a dictionary . He stopped doing it after that. And it does mean now that whenever he goes over the top with his language I just need to look at him over my glasses and say 'are you still full of moral turpitude?' and he realises he's gone too far.

Not that I can speak, my language shows my education which means it's a mix of the gutter and the ivory tower. My office mate says I've taught her lots of new words, she's currently very fond of 'stabby rage'. I obviously blamed you lot.

I think it's folly to try to change people to suit our own tastes

How very true, LeaLander. Hopefully though your excellent advice will be ignored and we can all continue enjoying AIBU.

What is wrong with people talking properly? You have to be really insecure about your own intelligence if you get so annoyed at people you're supposed to value using bigger words than you.

I am guilty of this. My mother was a teacher not that you would know it from my spelling and grammar mistakes here Even I find it funny when I hear these words out of the mouths of my 10 year old and 6 year old from time to time.

Haha, my husband sometimes does this. The most annoying one being "I can assure you..." grrrr. I am not one of your suppliers/customers so stop assuring me. I just give him a raised eyebrows look. Perhaps I should respond in the same way I talk to lawyers and barristers at work. Haha.

Using big words isn't always a sign of intelligence; it can often be the opposite - people use them to make themselves sound more intelligent than they are.

People who are intelligent and good communicators can explain complex things using simple words.

Well I'm a bit in love with your DH. We would get on famously.

I'd like to refer you to arrangements for the weekend, rubbish collection, and think about your views. Or, I want to sit down and review the budget for x renovations this afternoon. The things are followed by rather arsy requests for further, detailed information.

I usually respond with "you're at home dear, not in court, if you want a conversation try to remember I'm your wife not your bloody clerk.

OP, are you married to biggest twat ever Russel Brand