Because that's not exactly the same thing. People who don't like big words work to continually reassure themselves they're missing no precision of meaning or a

Because that's not exactly the same thing. People who don't like big words work to continually reassure themselves they're missing no precision of meaning or accuracy of tone. They often are. The selection has a grade level of 15.73 (aka, Junior in college) Doesn't mean everything should be expressed at the college reading level, but it doesn't mean everything else should be expressed at the reading level of a 6th grader. To move this sentence down to the flesch reading level of a 6th grader requires the following: >The intuition behind the theory is nonetheless compelling, which makes the scarcity of policy prescriptions frustrating to >Acemoglu's idea make sense to me. I'm still mad and unsettled that it does not tell the government what to do to fix the problem. FK Grade level of 5.8 And it had to go into the 1st person to do so, Try to write the sentence, capturing all the nuance of what he's saying and keeping it in the third person. Requires several more lines.