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Your disinterest is ostentatious to the point of itself being a fashion statement.

Also, 'nerf' and 'grammable' are obvious? I know what nerf means but neither are in any way obvious. I think you've got some unexamined ideas about language that have more to do with the words you learned as you were coming up than any principled or aesthetic reason.

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> Your disinterest is ostentatious to the point of itself being a fashion statement.

Which part of what I said was unwarranted?

> Also, 'nerf' and 'grammable' are obvious?

If you know the brands, the verbs/adjectives can stick easily.

> I think you've got some unexamined ideas about language that have more to do with the words you learned as you were coming up than any principled or aesthetic reason.

I think you have problems understanding why people say what they do.

Your degree of disinterest in 'fashionable' words. It is itself a fashion statement.

The point is that I have a boring vocabulary and it's not out of spite that I don't use newer terms. Is that clearer for you now?

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