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StFan
Since: Jan, 2001
7th May, 2016 01:24:58 PM
I think this would fall into Delusions of Eloquence.
Do we have a trope for when a character starts using a word he has just found in a dictionary far too often, usually trying to seem sophisticated? Author Vocabulary Calendar seems to cover real cases, should it be given an in-universe section?
I'm thinking of the one-time antagonist of Lucky Luke who ran a newspaper and used "inique" several times in each sentence. (Don't know how this was translated.)