Well, I would at least think the professor would pay attention to whether the word made sense or not. I could understand if it's praised if and when a multi-syllabic word is used correctly. Danny, on the other hand, uses 25-cent words when they're not even inappropriate, and worse yet - they don't mean what he needs to say. (I only know what he's trying to say because we're working on the project together, and really, the teacher should know what the words mean in the context he would use them in.)
8-syllable words that don't carry the appropriate meaning just means that the person saying it is trying too hard. Doesn't intelligence just convey itself with a smooth confident style?
Interestingly enough, during our presentation today, I think Danny heeded a little of what I'd said during practice. He trimmed down his portion to 6 minutes (that's almost 40% of the alloted time for the presentation), which is better than the 9 minutes we'd clocked him at three times during a practice session (The rest of us used 3, which brought us to our full 15). Classmates came up to my other group members after class asking how we'd gotten him to not do his usual long-winded schtick. (Because Danny is a notorious ass, and is notorious for making everyone else look like an ass - when other classmates found out which of us were grouped with Danny, they pretty much just apologized).
We shined in comparison to the next group. On speaking ability, they did well, but it was clear their research was lacking. They missed multi-million dollar class action lawsuits against 24 Hour Fitness that several students knew about, and had a hard time handling the Q&A session after their presentation. I'm relieved that my group actually did some hardcore research.
In other words, our presentation went
*very* well.
