"You mean I don't have to feel vaguely inadequate as I drift into a stupor waiting for him to finish his sentences, with all those big, obscure words, intoned ponderously?"It's just that erudition & a big vocabulary can be used to clarify difficult topics, or merely to impress the hoi polloi, and I always get this queasy feeling when either reading or listening to him that he's...Would you prefer hip-hop?
Pygmy? Bushmen 'click'?
But maybe it's just me. :-)
If you got Him and Jack Palance both trying to give a speech, the audience would be desperatly pushing the fast-forward button.