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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't usually feel the need to change how I talk, but I should probably practice simplifying my vocabulary more often than I do because on the rare occasion I do need to, like when I'm talking to a child, I think I go a little too far with it and just end up sounding like a caveman.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suffer from this at work, I work at a mechanic shop. It's difficult sometimes trying to gauge your customer and where is appropriate to be on the scale of auto mechanic < - > five year old who has never seen a car. Most people are in like the 35%-65% auto mechanic range, but you get some outliers. Especially with older folks I'll find myself worrying if I sound condescending trying to explain something.