…when a diminutive synonym will suffice.
The Onion nails it here:
“Microsoft Word Now Includes Squiggly Blue Line To Alert Writer When Word Is Too Advanced For Mainstream Audience“
Never use a polysyllabic word…
…when a diminutive synonym will suffice.
The Onion nails it here:
“Microsoft Word Now Includes Squiggly Blue Line To Alert Writer When Word Is Too Advanced For Mainstream Audience“
A few years back I attended a compulsory communication course in which the trainer handed out a list of 50 words that were not to be used as they were considered too difficult to understand. On it were mostly words that I considered part of my own vocabulary. It turned out that of the younger colleagues present none knew any of the words and showed themselves very uneasy when I called BS on the trainer. Mind you, I work at a Dutch school of higher education, a place where one would expect people to have a learning attitude, but apparently not.
Uncle George was exactly right about Holland too.
Funny that the anti-spam word is "rock" 😉
This is all getting a bit too sesquipedalian for me.