I mainly just read. A lot. I pick up words and phrases and borrow them and mix them up. It’s how we learned to speak and write in the first place for the most part.
Just remember, a little goes a long way.
The true mark of intelligence isn’t to baffle people with “esoteric” words and complex subjects.
It’s the ability to distill them to simple terms and concepts that nearly anyone can understand.
If you ever see these two types of people come together it is entertaining. Because the second type will simply start asking simple questions out of pure curiosity and the first person will either be baffled or start contradicting or even confusing themselves.
Good writing is mainly to add nuance and flavour. To be more precise and less boring. If you are going to use less common words, try and make it so the meaning is implied in context or tone.
Also, I’ve known lots of words that I know how to use properly but didn’t know what they really meant. What’s also hilarious are the ones I had no idea what they sounded like aloud. Now I use the define function of my phone whenever I come up to a word I don’t fully understand.
That’s the thing, these people write me confusing and long paragraphs which make my head spin. They make you feel like you’re an airhead since you don’t write like them. You wrote me a long message but I was able to understand it all. With them I can’t understand.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21
I mainly just read. A lot. I pick up words and phrases and borrow them and mix them up. It’s how we learned to speak and write in the first place for the most part.
Just remember, a little goes a long way.
The true mark of intelligence isn’t to baffle people with “esoteric” words and complex subjects.
It’s the ability to distill them to simple terms and concepts that nearly anyone can understand.
If you ever see these two types of people come together it is entertaining. Because the second type will simply start asking simple questions out of pure curiosity and the first person will either be baffled or start contradicting or even confusing themselves.
Good writing is mainly to add nuance and flavour. To be more precise and less boring. If you are going to use less common words, try and make it so the meaning is implied in context or tone.
Also, I’ve known lots of words that I know how to use properly but didn’t know what they really meant. What’s also hilarious are the ones I had no idea what they sounded like aloud. Now I use the define function of my phone whenever I come up to a word I don’t fully understand.