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Anon describes experience (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by LifeLemons@lemmy.ml to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

My reading journey mirrors yours. When I entered the professional workforce, I was consistently met with vacant stares when I'd use whatever words I thought perfectly fit whatever I was describing. I came to find that using "big" words like that (examples I can recall: superfluous, inimical, vacuous, cogent, avuncular) made people think I was trying to show I was better than them. I had to pare my verbal vocabulary back to the most basic form so I could do my actual job.

Granted, I was in a "white collar" job surrounded by blue collar folks.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

I understood three of the five big words. :3