Now hold on there Jim, I don't use $75 words either. Not when I can muster up $100 words at a minimum and prefer the $500 ones.
Blame it on being competitive in Catholic school and seven years of Latin prepping for the priesthood (never ordained except ULC)
The English major in me still revels in alliteration and allegory, even as the populist in me is wary of sending friends scurrying for the dictionary.