Anti-intellectualism inhibits learning

[devonin]

I think that a claim like that could use some supporting. Can you please demonstrate where my vocabulary is lacking? For that matter, none of the words he uses are even especially impressive, certainly not the hallmarks of "an exceptional vocabulary" he just overuses everything, and adds words that are completely unnecessary to communicate the ideas he seems to want to communicate.

Communication is, tautologically enough, for communicating. Precision and clarity are more important than demonstrating that you know a lot of words. I could easily stretch a simple statement into an incredibly verbose paragraph, as I recall we had precisely that assignement in elementary school english. As I also recall, doing so was designed to show you the -importance- of clear, concise communication, rather than encourage people to use a thesaurus like a hammer.