How does one become more articulate?

>>8958222
As a child learns, by imitation and memorization.

>>8958722

Well said. The only thing I could add is to make a deliberate effort to say exactly what you mean. If you challenge yourself not to rely on another person's comprehension for a time, your word choice and phrasing will improve, and you will more easily be able to convey your message .

>>8959098
Agreed with this. Then once you've got the hang of saying exactly what you mean, work on saying it concisely. The trick is to be concise but add just a smidgen of padding and diplomacy so you don't come off as abrupt.

Don't use words unless you're really sure you're using them correctly and they're appropriate.

If you're going to be pretentious, make sure it's actually substantiated by what you're writing. Any time two faggots on 4chan start arguing, they go from talking like this
>I think you're wrong about Emperor Palpatine. He was obviously manipulating the Senate.
to this
>Whilst you clearly wish to claim that Emperor Palpatine was in the process of undertaking a manipulation of the Senatorial embodiment, you are quite rather incorrect in your venture, I do say!
where everything is puffed up, but to no actual effect, and fancy words here and there are misused or used ambiguously. Undergrads do this in their term papers a lot.

Fancy words are like barbecue sauce. Used correctly, they really add something to the meat. Blasted down someone's throat with a firehose, they just taste like sickly sweet ass.

Use as many words as possible that end in -tion

>>8958222
word of the day

and a secret but flaming unconscious desire to die in the process of explanation

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>>8958222
By effectively getting a point across with minimal declaration.