Timeline for Is there a word for "someone who can talk to anyone"?
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| Feb 19, 2015 at 3:06 | comment | added | rhetorician | @ErikKowal: OK. Most adults should know those words. By the same token, however, I'd recommend these same folks use the words "friendly" or "easy-going" in mixed company. Not everyone need be a sesquipedalian. For a semi-interesting video on how big words can make ya look stupid, check this out: socialtriggers.com/… Don | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 23:46 | comment | added | Erik Kowal | @rhetorician - Fair enough, if we're just talking about high school students. But what if 90% of adults (e.g. interviewers) also don't know those words? | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 23:31 | comment | added | rhetorician | Personally, I wouldn't call affable and gregarious five-dollar words. Seventy-five cents maybe, but not five bucks. Unlike commenter @ErikKowal, however, I would not bemoan our educational system in this country if I were to find out that 90 percent of high-schoolers did not know what the words meant. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 22:56 | comment | added | Erik Kowal | Do you really consider 'affable' or 'gregarious' to be five-dollar words? If that's a general perception, then our education systems are truly useless. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 20:48 | history | answered | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |