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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I tend to be a chameleon in social situations. I worked as a server and in retail, and adapting my language and behaviors helped me connect with all sorts of people. How I talked with a group of little old ladies who just came from church was COMPLETELY different than how I talked to the drunks on third shift.

    If someone else is using big words, feel free to match them, but most people don’t really care about learning big words that mean the same thing as words they already know. This alone doesn’t make them stupid, as they probably know a lot about other things that you have no interest in.

    When I hear someone using archaic words, I don’t assume that they are smart, I assume they WANT TO SOUND smart and that they are too good to act like a “normal” person.