: Re: Should a non-native writer try to use complex English words? I am a non-native English user and whenever I write something is it better that I use simple words or some rare and seldomly used

@Murphy332

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I am a non-native English user too, and my advise is - don't.

If your mastery of a language is below the average, trying to compensate it with using above the average vocabulary is a wrong idea. This is of course about general writing - if you are writing specialized papers, you got to use precise terms, no matter how rare those words are.

Even if a word like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the best to use in my writing, and I nail it 100%, there are some dead giveaways that show my foreign origin (or, rather, the lack of mastery in English), so I'd rather avoid going above an average vocabulary. This does not mean that I have to make my writing deliberately simplistic. An average vocabulary, on the other hand, should be Ok to use for writer of any level (that's my opinion).

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