In They Say I Say, in which box below is the first part using an academic voice and the second part colloquial language?

neurotically controlling; control freak

No building can be beautiful that does not have a rationally designed structure

Translation: Form follows function

One cannot eschew oppression while concomitantly using the same methods as the oppressor. Strength lies in difference

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

Which quote below is a more colloquial way of saying, "It was necessary that I, who this thought, should be somewhat."

"I think, therefore I am" (Renee Descartes)

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1
What is the most colloquial translatiosn for the following: a proclivity for obscurantism and circuambulatory diction?
"a preference for verbose perambulation that circumnavigates facility."
"an aptitude for circumlocution"
"a predetermination for high falutin grandiloquence"
"an addiction to soggy syntax"
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In They Say I Say, in which box below is the first part using an academic voice and the second part colloquial language?
neurotically controlling; control freak
self-conscious; neurotically controlling
control freak; neurotically controlling
above all else; self-conscious
3
If someone is required to be in the academic field to understand you, then you are using . . .
circumlocution
colloquialisms
jargon
grandiloquence
4
No building can be beautiful that does not have a rationally designed structure
Translation: A house divided cannot stand
Translation: One in the hand is worth two in the bush
Translation: I think, therefore I am
Translation: Form follows function
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One cannot eschew oppression while concomitantly using the same methods as the oppressor. Strength lies in difference
Don't beat around the bush
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
The medium is the message
Change begets change
6
Which quote below is a more colloquial way of saying, "It was necessary that I, who this thought, should be somewhat."
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" (Audre Lorde)
"The medium is the message" (Marshall McLuhan)
"Form follows function" (Louis Sullivan)
"I think, therefore I am" (Renee Descartes)
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The irony that "colloquialism" is "everyday, informal language" is that the word "colloquialism" itself . . .
might be considered by many to be an "academic word."
sounds like English class jargon
All of the above
sounds formal
8
What word might someone use instead of "veracity" if he/she was being more colloquial?
assertion
non-falsehood factor
truth
verifiability
9
What is the term for more "everyday," less "academic" language, the kind you might use in informal settings?
jargon
veracity
subtleties
colloquialisms
10
At the risk of being grandiose and using an odious metaphorical parlance, the result was catastrophically egregious
A goofy accumulation of plosvie consonants
A rolling stone gathers no moss
I know it when I see it
What a dumpster fire

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