Something I explained to my kids: There's a kind of fake science that consists of making up intellectual-sounding words for ideas everyone already has. Canonical example: ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph.
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Conversely (this one I didn't explain to them yet), using the simplest possible words protects you against bogusness, because you can't conceal it very effectively in simple words.
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There is an analog to this where experts assign names to problems. Lay people confuse the ability to assign a name with the ability to solve the problem. Happens a lot in healthcare and business.
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Nothing more trusting than the common tongue.
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just imagine the ease of managing the legalities, if you could do them without those jargons. Even in India where English is not even a native language.
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Whenever someone says "that will exacerbate the situation", nod in agreement and say "not only that, it will make it worse".
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I feel like exacerbate has a different feel then “make it worse”, it is more ”make already not good thing worse”. At this point “exacerbate” the word actually saves you a lot of syllables.
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There's a great chomsky interview about how this stems from people who solved problems that are hard to figure out and want the solution to be hard to explain, even though it's not.
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Masters explain complex concepts, simply
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May be a 'their' before 'using' would have been much better?
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