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I can guarantee you that she was "doing it intentionally" so she could to determine the level of discourse you could handle. The "fancy words" she was using were not to make you look stupid but to assess whether you could handle the type of vocabulary you could be expected to encounter in your job.
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Actually the emphasis of that job was on providing technial support in the target language over email or another written form. No real conversation. Their biggest concern was my proficency in the target language and ability to write it in the most correct and polite form. They told me several times that my knowledge of English is not so important than my ability to communicate with the target audience.
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