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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.
You ever read a post and realize that one of the deepest, most intimate parts of your soul have been eviscerated and laid bare for all to see?
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 paragraph
Uh
nice!
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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 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.
Yes, I can relate. But at the same time there is such a thing as unnecessary jargon.