Thought for the Day Use familiar words—words that your readers will understand, and not ...

[Paul Whybrow]

Use familiar words—words that your readers will understand and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvellously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.

James J. Kilpatrick

 

[Pamela Jo]

And that is why we remember this guys work to this day. Up there w Shakespeare and John Donne. If you want to outwit AI-then make them want to understand the words not dumb them down.

 

[RK Wallis]

Never heard of him. I like looking up words and increasing my vocab. I think one or two new words a book makes my reading experience comfortable. It's so easy to look them up on the Kindle.

V.E. Schwab uses "palimpsest" a number of times in The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue and it was the perfect word for every sentence she used it in, and I'm grateful to her for expanding my vocab. Gotta grow with the times or die.

 

[Pamela Jo]

I think most readers do and one reason kids dont read is it is dumbed down because of people like this.