You ever read a post and realize that one of the deepest, most intimate parts of your soul has been eviscerated and laid bare for all to see?
Oh my god. How?!
Imagine my consternation as a gastrointestinally-challenged individual when I first comprehended that abstaining from volatile food substances doesn’t inherently deter diarrhoea, but instead introduces a new spectrum of misapprehension I had never even conceptualized. This manifests in the form of observers presuming you’re adopting a fastidious or finicky demeanour when you’re simply endeavouring to maintain intestinal harmony.
Just use whatever words you feel like. Unless you’re trying to use the most complex words possible at all times, no one really cares. At best people will think you’re eloquent. At worst, snobbish. But if they think that, then fuck em, who cares. Don’t get hung up on the way you sound. That’ll just breed insecurities
Unrelated, but how do I force new lines on my comments?
Two spaces at the end of the line
Like this
Lines?
You want an extra blank row? Use on a new row. It’ll get converted to a space but preserve it in the markup. Otherwise, you can add 2 spaces at the end of a row to make ut linewrap there.
For example,
this line wraps but is all one paragraphUh
nice!
I really wish I had recorded a giant argument I once had with a friend with a journalism degree where we go into a shouting match about the precision of words vs the need to inform and how certain words might be better for informing at scale, but still tend to give a worse “understanding” the actual message and where the ethical line there lies etc. etc.
When I joined the military, I got that reaction from most of the people in my flight. I wasn’t even aware that I was talking any differently, but having just come from college, my brain was stuck in essary vocabulary mode.
I too involve myself in this ideosyncratic behaviour.
Jokes aside, why can’t people just appreciate that I’m trying to explain something as exactly as possible?
Large vocab != eloquence
The key is to have the vocabulary at hand, and only use it when it’s actually needed.
Basically how scientists speak, except without words that no one else has a clue what they mean.
Once as an intern I had to write an email about some random issue we were having at the time. I wasn’t trying to sound smart or anything, just writing as I saw fit. Showed to my boss before sending and he just said ‘ok, let’s change this a bit’. It was a good thing, because I learned to be more aware of context when talking/writing.
I have been subject of a similar critique in a professional setting. My response was to ask if they also contacted the authors of books to use more primitive words when they failed to understand the text. I love to hear or read unusual words and my first instinct is to reach for a dictionary or if it’s slang it’s often fun to play with the words. We want our audience to understand us but removing the flourishes sterilises language in the way that a patent lawyer renders a text into very precise but ultimately joyless verbiage.
Yes, I can relate. But at the same time there is such a thing as unnecessary jargon.
Ah, the old “Me brain has big-brained better than the small brain of the small-brained former” What prize, what pomp, to give to yonder misanthrope!
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Lol I didn’t think about that it would make me sound snobbish, but people sometimes reacted weird when I said a specific word.
Thanks for putting that in my head
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I don’t usually feel the need to change how I talk, but I should probably practice simplifying my vocabulary more often than I do because on the rare occasion I do need to, like when I’m talking to a child, I think I go a little too far with it and just end up sounding like a caveman.
I suffer from this at work, I work at a mechanic shop. It’s difficult sometimes trying to gauge your customer and where is appropriate to be on the scale of auto mechanic < - > five year old who has never seen a car. Most people are in like the 35%-65% auto mechanic range, but you get some outliers. Especially with older folks I’ll find myself worrying if I sound condescending trying to explain something.
