Want to sound smart? Use little words.
When I was a kid growing up in New Zealand, I had two favourite words: antidisestablishmentarianism and Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. Antidisestablishmentarianism means, in case you don’t know this, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the name of a tiny hill in New Zealand. In English it means the place where Tamatea, the…