I’ve always had an extremely high verbal IQ (which is genetic) but I realized most don’t, so I do this thing when Im speaking where I use the “fancy” word (the appropriate word) and then immediately give its definition without interrupting the flow. So something like… “a hard fork is a bifurcation of the network, it splits it into two parts” that little coda at the end really helps bring 90% of the audience in and doesn’t offend the 10%. Many smart people will just say the “fancy” word and then continue on not realizing they just lost the majority of the audience. Conversely when I do not want to be understood by the majority, I will crank up the language dial to 11 and speak exclusively in S.A.T words. This becomes a cypher for the majority of speakers and they quickly tune out. This is useful for controversial or sensitive topics.