I liked that opener, myself, but you're probably right.
Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a college graduate. But somehow as adults we decided it was cool to talk like twelve-year-olds.
For some of us, somewhere between twelve and adult we realized that to communicate with most other people we had to talk like twelve year olds. After all, using big words & words others don't know confuses and angers people. (IME at least)
Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a college graduate. But somehow as adults we decided it was cool to talk like twelve-year-olds.