This troper--oh GOD, this troper. She talks like this most of the time if not using BuffySpeak or outright lolspeak, and will actually occasionally start using the 'thou' rather than 'you' set of pronouns if she's been reading too much Tennyson (she absorbs mannerisms). She once wrote a letter in perfect Victorian English by complete accident, only after realizing she'd done it and making a note at the bottom in apology. Sometimes she does it on purpose, but it's generally an unconscious effort, which results in awkward moments around people of shall we say lower intellect. It helps that she's a 160-something IQ, though. *blush of awkwardness*

I totally dig the way TV Tropes has become a place for Tropers to pretend that they are genious super-people.

Where do they hide the perfect girls like you? I'm the same in male form. And I don't ſee a good reaſon not to uſe the Engliſh Long S (moſt fonts have a glyph for it, after all). And I ask people on occasion, "what didst thou, in thy mind, have?" Which wierds them out.

And I totally dig how you brag about how smart you are whilst simultaneously misspelling the word 'weird'.

The answer to that, my friend, is unknown even by me. I don't generally use the long S, but when writing my Ts are in a distinctive style taken from medieval calligraphy, as are my As. And of late I've started using the British spelling system due to my vast intake of British Victorian Literature... Beyond that, I'm one of the few non-tropers I know to italicize titles, and I still use 'halloa' as an interjection... Ooh, and I'm often found facepalming due to having used 'football' instead of soccer. I'm so antiquated some days that I cause moments of HaveAGayOldTime... I'm LeyomiTheParodier. Nice to meet you. (And because you sound interesting, I'll be checking back here weekly to see if you've replied)

Which actually resulted in an oddball CrowningMomentOfFunny and CrowningMomentOfAwesome for me and my classmates respectively when, whilst copying down a vocab list (or something)in class, the teacher asked who was done. One person said yes, and then I said, absently, "As am I." Then literally every other student, in rapid succession as they finished, said "as am I" rather than "yeah" (not as impressive as it sounds since I'm in a class of five people but still). They were almost mocking me, but there was just a tad of admiration in the voice...

Though I tend more towards ordinary SesquipedalianLoquaciousness (and SophisticatedAsHell, I have quite the foul mouth, and a great fondness for slang and jargon whenever they expresses the matter best), my writing is often a mild example of this trope--no gratuitous hyphenation or similar superficial flourishes, but a mannered style definitely influenced by times past. My academic papers have always been even more so, written in a style that fits scholarly work from between the 1890s and WorldWarII far more than the bafflegab that is modern academese.

Did any of your teachers or profs. ever give you worse grades for such flashy flares of fancy diction, whether lain betwixt words either in exposition or fiction? Because mine did. And it was rather stupid. ...the bafflewitted lummox-fucking rum mawnds.

Being SophisticatedAsHell is a hobby of mine.

This troper frequently uses more than a few words of Old and Middle English that didn't quite make the leap to Modern. It seems the habit is contagious.

troper YoungGun has a tendency to say 'aye' a lot.

I do that too but no-one notices.

This troper learned Dutch by reading a bible that had been owned by his great-grandfather. A Dutch penpal he later corresponded with proceeded to teach him more modern usages of that language.

Verily, this troper doth speake this way. Specifically, he likes the words "verily" and "yonder", as well as thees and thous and all that. He actually often uses a mild case of this in normal conversation. "Art thou kidding me?" and such.

I have one mission. Avoid internet lingo such as "wtf" and "lol" whenever possible if my writing were to be published with permanence, as grammatically correct English is feared to fall into this trope. What happens appears to be me using this trope. An example: participlising adjectives that can turn into participles. But as it happens, my own English beomes undermined by those arcing words.

My wife learned German as a foreign language, using classic German literature. Even after years in Germany, she still uses phrases and expressions that fell out of use years or sometimes decades ago.