The writer I’m thinking of has an online persona that always makes me think of an erudite professor who has learned English as a foreign language - that is, they always use a fairly formal tone, and when selecting a synonym, go for the one that has me discreetly reaching for a dictionary.
My real-life English professors (and various of my English teachers from junior high on up) would be smiling and nodding at this, if not laughing aloud...but I promise, English is my first and foremost language. (I took several years' worth of French, and accumulated enough overall word-sense that I actually spent several years in a prior career formatting computer manuals in a variety of European languages, but I don't seriously speak or write anything other than good old American English.)
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Date: 2019-12-17 12:30 am (UTC)My real-life English professors (and various of my English teachers from junior high on up) would be smiling and nodding at this, if not laughing aloud...but I promise, English is my first and foremost language. (I took several years' worth of French, and accumulated enough overall word-sense that I actually spent several years in a prior career formatting computer manuals in a variety of European languages, but I don't seriously speak or write anything other than good old American English.)