Well yeah I mean rock fall down because it made of earth. Now if I could just remember where earth lies on the periodic table…
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Earth under table. Duh.
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Periodically you are correct, if viewed from a suitable standpoint.
Absolutely. I don’t think there is or should be one voice for reaching everyone. I write very differently when sending an email to my friends and family, sending out reports to be read by corporate executives, or discussing scientific research with colleagues. “Inability to communicate in the style a given community expects” very often comes across as lack of competence or capability, and seems to be behind a lot of the difficulty in moving between different social and socioeconomic classes, and I know of no good way to change that. It isn’t always just a bias either - some contexts need more formality to avoid ambiguity, as a kind of jargon to precisely and efficiently discuss particular concepts that you wouldn’t care about in other contexts.
My wife tells me I also have a tendency to come off as a pompous ass who uses unnecessarily complicated words in normal conversation - that’s the register I use most often so it becomes automatic even when I don’t need it. Then in the next breath I use the wrong word (sometimes even when I’m thinking the right one) and end up saying things that make no sense whatsoever. So there’s that.
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Rare earth low on periodic table.
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