yeah honestly i think i'm gonna start pushing back against any anti-intellectualism that comes my way. it's getting very tiring seeing people online cry about pretentiousness when they see a 5 dollar word
I have always been of the belief that if you cannot get your point across in simple terms you aren't actually intelligent, however I also don't think that should limit writers in how they write or the words they use when they are writing. Saying someone is using long words for no reason honestly just makes you look dumb.
Chris Franklin's post there only contains $2 dollar words, at most. "Metastasized" is a word you would likely encounter in either medical shows or if a relative had cancer, and none of the other words in that post are even remotely obscure. It's a weird hill to die on to argue that OP's post is some sort of purple prose.
