trifles

Some people describe things they don’t understand as “troublesome” or “[Deliberately difficult to write.

case - misdelivery of books

People who “write difficult on purpose” do exist.

• This means “those who choose more difficult expressions at a cost
• There are a lot of “people who choose easier wording at a cost,” so some people mistake just omitting the cost as “writing harder on purpose.”
  • That’s just a distorted perception from ingesting all the “easy at a cost” stuff.
    • You may read Many things written in style are not “made easy at the cost of being read”, this is the neutral state.

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