“Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like… like… you know, like, you know what I mean, like…” — Dr. Lexus
“Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” — Abraham Lincoln (as credited on the Intertubes, so it must be true.)
I worked in broadcast for years. There’s a difference between revising something so it’s understandable for your audience, and completely changing the meaning of it.
If you view your audience as idiotic, you might not understand that difference. You might also find yourself worried more about graphics, and whether your document is littered with enough catch phrases.
You might also spend a lot of time in soliloquy, interrupted only by rhetorical queries to the audience about your correctness.
“Right?”
“No, I’m not sure that’s right. Directly cite something.”