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"complexity sounds smart, but simplicity gets remembered"^

have you ever been to a museum? that little verbosity, gifted by the clueless curator, next to the exhibit, oft by each work of art, leaves you stupidfied by their unthrifty abuse and the indecipherable misuse of extra big unclear words that make adjectives want you to throw up, over, on, the common tongue this profoundly sound smooth jazz advice, should be the mantra of those who mask their inferiority with a mastery of a clogged comprehension what is before the viewers eyes, re and re/rereading the illiterate utter cut of the curator's *gib"~ berish
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Nov 9, 2025
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Tom Whie, Substack columnist "White Noise"

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