After reading a sentence like that, the meaning is perfectly clear. However, if the title was instead “my long time acquaintance has an infatuation for various types of stones and minerals”, it would take you a lot longer to read, and you probably wouldn’t glean any additional insight from it. In fact, you would potentially retain a lot less from the title — and then you would be justifiably confused while reading this nonsense.
What’s the point here? Using more words is often not better. It is often a byproduct of someone tryna sound smarter than they are. There are other less obvious ways to appear intelligent. Good grammar, spelling, and even better punctuation; these are subtle things that can show intelligence.
The intelligence of an individual you are interacting or working with shouldn’t actually matter. Rather, the competence matters. In this world, individuals try their best to show competence by appearing intelligent. However, the true measure of someone’s competence will only reveal itself after working with them for some amount of time. Of course, this revelation only occurs to those that are competent as well 🙂
Final thoughts: how does one strike the balance between overly wordy and competent in their writings? How long does it take for a competent person to deem another person competent? How much does my friend really like rocks?
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