I was thinking about the last two pieces I've written for the book I'm trying to write. One was more web format and more communicative but used fewer big words. The other was about something I feel less confident about. As I explored the concept I used big words. I tried not to but I was in an area where I feel inept to communicate properly. I switched to the language I read but which doesn't help in communicasting stuff to all people.
I'm avoiding using big words but in the last piece I may have used a lot or whipped up concepts which are still abstract in the minds of many readers.
This is a technique of authority. Big words, like glasses, make a person seem smart. People listen to smart people without thinking. They assume they're right.
If I ever fail in this discourse it is when I stop you thinking. I'm not smart. I just read a lot. And drink and stuff. I'm not any smarter than you.
What I hope is readers read and comprehend and think. The last bit it the most important. My examples may oversimplify but they comminicate the important bit and, most of all I hope, get a good mind thinking.
Slipping into an authority mode by a switch of language from lay to professional or specialist is not a technqiue I wish to use in what I write here though I'm afraid to admit I do do it in my personal life.
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