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Most speakers, on most speaking occasions, should sound natural, not pedantic.
(It's important, however pedantic it may sound, to keep stressing that only "some" or "a few" partook of such vengeance, since even choosing to discuss these acts--and not the vastly more extensive crimes that preceded them--threatens to distort history.)
It's only January and I'm already tired of Bradley's pedantic tone and Gore's you-voted-for-vouchers-20-years-ago tone.
The vice president inherited his pedantic political style from his father, who rose from poverty to become a teacher and politician.
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .