Have you ever tried to dumb down your choice of words for someone you know who has lower intelligence than you because you think they might not understand?

"My brother is developmentally challenged. I have to do this all the time. It's no fault of his, of course. He just only has the vocabulary of a 4th grader. It has the added benefit of cluing us in to when my mother is trying to coach him into thinking certain ways about things. Case and point, my brother was visiting with my mother and called me a "kept man." I actually didn't know what this meant, so I asked him. He looked at my mother. My mother squirmed. "