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Just standing my ground!
It's more about how you express yourself I think ... you can be a great communicator without over-doing things.
I do have to say I love the english language though.
Sew many weighs too ex-press yourself!
I won't blag someones head with big words, but I won't shy away from using them if I feel like using them.
I have the intention of going back over the lists, and bringing myself up to speed.
It never happens, but just making that first effort to acknowledge the gap in my knowledge helps me to slowly fill them in.
After the same word has come up on one of the lists 2 or 3 times, I usually cotton on.
For example, esoteric. Which is actually very fitting for this discussion :^)
I'd never actually thought about about it as using long words to convey superior intellect - either in the books I read or when I speak to other people.
When it's me who doesn't understand, I always tended to see it as my own limitations, not a flaw in the author.
I can't think of any times I've put anyone else in that situation, but perhaps they just pretend, like hippyman.
It'd be wicked if he and I met up. We could talk for hours, and both come away with absolutely no idea what the other was saying, at any point in the conversation :^D
One book I read recently took the 'simplest possible, natural language' approach and was brilliant.
Another took the 'lots of long, impressive technical words' approach and was a total ball-ache.
But another one took the 'simple words, conversational style' approach and was just intensely hard work to read.
Overcomplication - Bad
Oversimplification - Bad
'Everything should be made as simple as possible, and no simpler.'
Einstien (roughly remembered).
It sounds like he knew a thing or two :^)
If you use big words that people don't know they're unlikely to ask what they actually mean, thus they'll quickly lose any idea of what you're talking about...
If you use too many simple words, then they'll likely assume that you're simple and lose interest...