Y'know? I really really question people's reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.
I can (and have) analyzed fictional things, I can draw parallels and make clearly logical theorum based on extant information.
I can use less complicated language, I can explain things simply, and the words are right there!
Like, people can reread them if they're confused. It's part of why I tend to prefer written communication. You can check what someone communicated.
And people will still have the gall to try to convince me, and logic, and existing information, that they're not actually completely wrong. That whatever they want to believe is obviously correct because they want to believe it.
Ugh. Sometimes it's really just not worth the time I take to craft responses to things. I'm very careful about which words I use, and yes, shockingly, I do actually know their definitions.
Even about words/editing stuff. I've been a working editor for a decade and a trad pub author (I ran away really fast after I got my rights back) for longer. I study information about fiction (among other things) because it's fascinating to me and it's my actual job. I don't pretend to know everything about words, but I do know a lot.
Telling an editor that they're wrong when it comes to fiction is a whole look. And it's not a pretty one.
This is stuff I make a living using. It's stuff that's very clear if you read and think about what you read.
There's this cool concept, peeps, it's a whole book dedicated to the meaning of words and also what words used to mean.
It's called a dictionary.
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