Inventing the longest multisyllabic words possible to pick up on my secondary school German education.
Polish my prose so I don’t sound so baroque to antihyperbolic minimalist poets with pollen induced asthma and easily triggered doctors triggered if you use a technical term like influenza because you’re launching a turf war where they always have the back up of a gun toting squad even if your lexical largesse is grandiloquent but your epistemological frame is modest. I don’t do self-diagnosis
Or when nurse asks you to describe heat to them. They want a descriptor of the concept of heat. Adjectives like red is one. Can’t recall newton or fourier off the top off my head
Doctors are supposedly lazier today. Why are their twitter so busy and citable then?
I love proofreaders and editors for introducing me to the triple dash, the grammarian long-jump. I can’t compete

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