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ChihuahuaOfDoomCan we please use simple language, I don’t know what the fuck exhort means, I mean I do now (strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something) but I didn’t. Why are you trying to make me learn!?!
Todd BonzalezThis is one of those things where you think you’re making a justified complaint about a publication using unnecessarily esoteric language that you feel alienates the reader. This is something that has the possibility of being a legitimate complaint. There is a good argument for not talking over your audience’s heads.
But everyone who read the article just sees a guy who can’t read…
I’m educated well enough, I was mostly being sarcastic but the fact is that no one uses that word. I figured what it meant based on context but still had to go look it up and was annoyed. Sometimes it seems like a writer feels like being vague and beats you over the head with a thesaurus.
This is the opposite of vague
When was the last time you used the word exhort in a sentence? Or heard it? The word has a specific meaning sure but using uncommon vernacular makes the sentence vague.
If the sentence is hard to understand because the writer omitted important context, we can say that the sentence is vague.
If the sentence is hard to understand because the reader can’t read at a sixth grade reading level, we can say that the reader is stupid.
Exhort isn’t an advanced word. It’s intermediate vocabulary that you managed to go without your entire life until today. You could act like an adult with a functioning brain and simply look up the word you don’t know add that word to your personal vocabulary so that you won’t be confused by it again. Instead, you have decided to throw a tantrum about having to face a single word you didn’t already know.
Honestly, I don’t know how you are making the arguments are you without feeling completely humiliated. Most people just quietly educate themselves when they catch themselves unaware of a common English word. It’s wild to broadcast to the whole world that you didn’t know the word “exhort”, and then double down even after it is apparent that you are the only one who didn’t already know that word.
Nobody here is siding with you on this, because nobody else sees the problem you do. That’s not a good sign when everyone reads the same article you did, and you’re the only one insisting that the article was unreadable. You’re just revealing that, out of everyone who read the article, you’re the worst at reading.