I hate this tweet almost as much as I hate the community note

The Layman's Linguist This is allistic propaganda too and I’m only a little bit joking. I get accused of writing “to sound smart” when I’m not all the time. I’m just autistic and very particular about how I say things bc of that and bc I have a pathological issue with being misunderstood

Unfriendly Black²feet Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī Along those lines: this will likely have the unattended effect of making students intentionally avoid the more natural and/or accurate terminology in order to avoid this accusation.

It's the exact flipside of awful advice like 'use these 15 (alleged) synonyms to sound smart!'