• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I had a political conversation with a right-wing co-worker a while back, and he generally operated in good faith, but he got flustered and tried to do the “why do you use big/pretentious words” scold on me, and he did not handle it well when I responded “I guess home school and Liberty University didn’t land you with much of a vocabulary”.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Good writers and speakers use clear and simple words. If you can’t explain something to a five year old then you don’t know very much about it.