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> I'm very sympathetic to your tech-on-tech-on-tech-on-tech hogwashery promulgated by open sourcers & vendors prosteltyzing their wonderful solutions and the other acculturation factors that permits developers approaches other than trying & seeing & exploring-

Are you studying for the SATs, or just trying to make your argument sound more compelling through the use of unnecessarily complex words?

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Yet, different, and sometimes more complex words can have entirely unlike connotations, that much more effectively describe the message the author is trying to convey. Sometimes, simpler words are just that—too simple to properly describe the concept the author would like to capture, and the emotions he would like to encode within it.

That's not to say complicated is always better. Like it programming, the best set of tools are those suited for the job.

In the end, you consider your audience. Can I add more to this sentence to better capture the feeling I'm trying to convey, without detracting from it's ability to be understood? The parent most likely decided that on a forum like HN, the answer was yes.

It's how I feel, I'm so very very sorry it's tripped your acceptable tolerance levels. I'll bite my lip and not add "you prat" to the end. Thanks for your considered moderation, and I see your point.

My only point is that being obtuse is not the best way to get your point across. I assume your goal in expressing your opinion is to convince others, and to do so it helps to be clear, concise, and direct.

That's a very narrow assumption as to why someone would express their opinion. The OP might be sharing their experience (in what was a humorous way) purely to be sociable in this discussion...

Not everyone is out to convince others.

Righto, he could be here to make himself feel good by using words he doesn't usually get to.

Dare I call into question what you are here for? How do you feel about your contribution- attempting to heap more shame- plays for the whole audience? Is what you are doing of value?

On a forum like HN, where the audience spends a great deal of time reading and engaging in self-improvement, choosing words that are not simplistic should be fine.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that even in a community where "acculturation factors" is something people actually say (crit lit? sociology?) it's something that causes people to play that community's equivalent of buzzword bingo.

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