Today, we're going to tackle the most complex and pretentious of linguistic abominations: Semantical Pretentiousness.
It's a term that has been bandied about by the elite of the linguistic community, and yet, few understand it. But fear not, dear reader, for we shall break it down for you in simple terms.
Semantical Pretentiousness is a phenomenon where one uses overly complex vocabulary in a way that's more confusing than clarifying. It's like trying to explain a joke to a toddler while wearing a lab coat and a monocle.
Read about the related concept of Syntactic Obfuscation, a closely related field of study. View some examples of Semantical Pretentiousness in action, for educational purposes only.