Re:Ask HN: Why don't web browsers discourage words that not ...
by na85 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:33PM
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>Is your goal to (try to) teach people new words, or to communicate your points?
Fancy words exist for a reason, and it's that their semantics are different from other words. Sometimes using a fancy word is the correct choice, and sometimes a more common word will do.
Synonyms don't actually mean the same thing as each other.
If I'm reading a text in French and I come across a word I don't know, I look it up. It's my second language after all. I certainly don't expect French authors to dumb anything down for me.
Fancy words exist for a reason, and it's that their semantics are different from other words. Sometimes using a fancy word is the correct choice, and sometimes a more common word will do.
Synonyms don't actually mean the same thing as each other.
If I'm reading a text in French and I come across a word I don't know, I look it up. It's my second language after all. I certainly don't expect French authors to dumb anything down for me.