If you can't make yourself sound adequately smart, it could lead to people ignoring you, and/or acting in spite of your opinions/logic, and/or spending extra effort trying to decipher you. That is not an optimal situation, especially in cases where you would be right[1].
1: I don't think you're right in this instance, but that's beside the point.
That’s trivially false in the case where “math” or “programming” is the domain of the writing, but its also false more generally.
let me just say, you're not going to sound smart saying that
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If you can't make yourself sound adequately smart, it could lead to people ignoring you, and/or acting in spite of your opinions/logic, and/or spending extra effort trying to decipher you. That is not an optimal situation, especially in cases where you would be right[1].
1: I don't think you're right in this instance, but that's beside the point.