Can you state profound ideas without sounding pretentious?

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Can you state profound ideas without sounding pretentious?

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The ability to state profound ideas without sounding pretentious depends on who is listening to your profound ideas and on who does not have the profundity to care to listen to them.

If you superficially explain your profound ideas to avoid sounding pretentious when you could explain them much more extensively, then your expression is being pretentious, ironically, for the sake of not seeming pretentious.

People who think that pretentiousness has only to do with the person's words and writing style have it all wrong. Pretentiousness is about pretending to be someone who one is not. Individuals vary in their vocabularies and writing skills. The fact that someone has a large vocabulary or an uncommon writing style does not by itself indicate pretentiousness.