As others have mentioned, that's actually not what it means. Here's a version that's closer to the gist of it: "When you are trying to give away money, the peo

As others have mentioned, that's actually not what it means. Here's a version that's closer to the gist of it: "When you are trying to give away money, the people asking for it can often use special or hard words and ideas that you may not know or that may be confusing." Sadly "rare," "uncommon," "unclear," and a whole bunch of other words don't make the simplewriter cut (too bad the XKCD tool doesn't automatically try to pull up closet matches from a thesaurus filtered against the word-list).