>>658 There's more to language than communication and efficiency! I'm reminded of that Fry & Laurie Tricky Linguistics video again. I appreciate when a writer has faith that I have read a book before and doesn't need to spoonfeed me, but we agree it's obvious and annoying when a fancy word is forced and misused. But, I don't believe it's always as forced as you imply, I don't think that's why people become writers. Wait, after I typed that I realised maybe you weren't talking about books, when you say "writer" are you talking about online journalists? Cos that's different, those guys are nincompoops