The Gervais Principle by the Ribbonfarm guy gets into this: powertalk vs. babytalk

the Cornell article is basically just empirical testing of these concepts.

	▲	red-iron-pine 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		this reads like an AI clickbait. it does make Rao's original article a little easier to digest but it was already pretty tight through the first 3-4 parts.