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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah, I get shit occasionally in random places for using bigger words when they actually would take multiple sentences to replace.

But there are a fucking lot of people who use big (or obscure) words purely as a kind of signaling that they’re smart, rather than for communication. And it’s usually really obvious to people who have better vocabularies (or better understanding of the jargon in a specific field) that they don’t know what they’re doing.

If after looking up a word, the rationale for the word choice doesn’t become understandable on at least some level, it’s probably nonsense.

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