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Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Let me elucidate

Hi

Is the word elucidate used in everyday conversation? Or would you that explain is better?

Let me elucidate.
Let me explain.

The Google N grams almost refuses to acknowledge the use of "let me elucidate".

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=let+me+explain%2C+let+me+elucidate&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clet%20me%20explain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clet%20me%20elucidate%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Mr. Tom Is the word elucidate used in everyday conversation? No.

— CalifJim

  • Mr.
  • Tom Is the word elucidate used in everyday conversation?
  • No.
  • Use 'explain'.
  • 'elucidate' would only be used in everyday conversation in a joking way, perhaps as if to mock the way a professor might express himself.
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Mr. TomIs the word elucidate used in everyday conversation?
No. Use 'explain'. 'elucidate' would only be used in everyday conversation in a joking way, perhaps as if to mock the way a professor might express himself.

CJ
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Elucidate is a $5 word.
Explain is a $0.50 word.

When people use $5 words in an everyday conversation, they are only trying to impress someone within earshot that they are infinitely superior beings.

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.” ? Mark Twain
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