You know that thing where you disagree with a guy online and suddenly his vocab switches from completely normal to "writing missives from the revolutionary war in a quill pen" as though that's going to give him some kind of intellectual high ground
In the replies you'll find a lot of women knowing exactly what I'm talking about and a lot of men going "I do not see why one should not be precise in his manner of expression, I merely desire to clarify my intent lest my intentions be misjudged by hostile adversaries"