YOUR LOQUACIOUSNESS IS OFF-PUTTING.

Yes, seriously.  "3 in 5 people ‘articulate’ themselves with big words to sound smarter — even if they don’t know the meanings."  There's substantial overlap between the words people perceive as making themselves sound smarter and the words people perceive as pretentious coming out of the mouths of others.  Totally unnecessary, suggests career maven Joshua Spodek.  "In my experience, people considered smart use common words to avoid distracting from their ideas and meaning."

Yup.  Shorter preferable to longer.  Anglo-Saxon etymology preferable to Greco-Roman.