Reasons for writers to use "big" words:
1) The "big" word conveys a nuance of meaning that the "normal" word may not, being too vague
2) The "big" word sounds cool (as in, the word actually does sound cool and not like the writer is trying to get sapiosexually laid)
3) You fucking feel like it
Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.
60+, feral liberal, sewist, reader, lazy weirdo, wife to the world's best husband, mom to 2 adult sons, personal assistant to 2 cats, packmate to elderly border collie. American obsessed with Australian TV.
