Big grammar is useless in all academic endeavors except if you are really trying to impress some insecure and uneducated people

Yeah, I remember my writings were at some point inundated with vocabulary that were mostly irrelevant and redundant - needless, in short. I've had professors advise against their usage. Rather than enhance one's writings, they made them cryptic instead. Most people would appreciate it more if an intellectual speaks or writes succintly, precisely, and to the point using common words, rather than lacing their articulations with grammatical mountains that most folks must decode in dictionaries before they can comprehend.

Contrary to the general belief that writers of big vocabularies as in the above examples must be university professors, I am afraid they are not. They are a bunch of half baked educational exhibitionists who think the best way to get noticed is to write big grammar. Most of their sentences are just too long as if they are writing a prose. The sentences are badly punctuated and often become meaningless. The words are mostlly inappropriate and out of place in conveying the idea being expressed. Big english is bad english. A best selling novel would be the one witten in simple, clear, jargon free english' and not the one you have to look up for meanings in the Thesaurus.

I couldn't agree more with the notion that a common denominator must be sought in all matters, and particularly with respect to written communication.

If I had my way, anyone I deem guilty of penning words or sentences that I do not understand would be dragged from their home, beaten to death by a baying mob, and then dismembered for use as livestock feed.

Praise the Lord !

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