[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by oldE

About 20 years ago, I read an article about speaches given by candidates running up to an election. Analysis showed one party was using vocabulary understood by persons reading at a grade 8 level. The other party's speaches were tailored to those reading at a grade 6 level. The campaign aimed at the underachievers won.
I was astounded by what I considered 'talking down ' to the electorate, but my wife, who taught for 33 years advised me most people aren't comfortable with language above that level.
Education is critical.

Best
Les

I believe every word of this. Hardest part of my job is not the squalor or riff raff, but trying to explain to someone my folks' age that 12 is greater than 10 and not sound like a douche while saying it.