In public, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says his country’s growing friendship with China is unshakable — a strategic military and economic collaboration that has entered a golden era.
But in the corridors of Lubyanka, the headquarters of Russia’s domestic security agency, known as the F.S.B., a secretive intelligence unit refers to the Chinese as “the enemy.”
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Huh, so that is why in speech writing you are advised to speak at 6th grade level and not to “overcomplicate” things? Then it is no wonder that if people don’t read and just watch public speaking/advertising they’d revert back to that equilibrium level that allows you to participate in society, but just as a consumer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch–Kincaid_readability_tests e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20160712094308/http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/writing_guide/writing/flesch.shtml seem to deliberately dumb English down for practical purposes.