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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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The idea that a writer's interest in style and diction makes them inherently boring, untruthful and affected.
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Absolutely. I left this one largely untouched, and of course the main thrust of such an argument comes from the least informed, but writers generally come by their vocabulary honestly, by having read a great deal more than the average person, and specifically having read a great deal more of existing canon. Often enough, that knowledge is augmented by life experiences wherein the author has been exposed to specialized vocabularies.
Anti-intellectualism is anti-intellectualism, and serves no practical purpose. It's a strategy for protecting the ego which devalues the ego considerably over time. When applied on a cultural scale, it's a guaranteed ticket to the third world.