using English terms is seen as ugly, un-literary and generally low status.
Not sure how transparent is this for native English speakers, but imagine something like this:
A: “To avoid dehydration, you should drink a lot of aqua.”
B: “Just say ‘water’, moron!”
The connotation is that the first speaker is either pretentious, trying to gain some status cheaply by using a Latin word (connotating “I am educated”, without actually saying anything impressive), which gets a fair slapdown (“we are just as educated as you”)… or maybe actually repeats the teacher’s password without fully understanding it, which would be quite shameful in case of an idea this simple.
The principle is that the person who fully understands the idea (that you should drink water), and isn’t trying to play blatant status moves, would almost certainly have said “water” instead.
Which is a good heuristic (communication should be as clear as possible)… that fails if you are using the foreign word because there literally is no good translation (that would convey the intended connotations).
Not sure how transparent is this for native English speakers, but imagine something like this:
A: “To avoid dehydration, you should drink a lot of aqua.”
B: “Just say ‘water’, moron!”
The connotation is that the first speaker is either pretentious, trying to gain some status cheaply by using a Latin word (connotating “I am educated”, without actually saying anything impressive), which gets a fair slapdown (“we are just as educated as you”)… or maybe actually repeats the teacher’s password without fully understanding it, which would be quite shameful in case of an idea this simple.
The principle is that the person who fully understands the idea (that you should drink water), and isn’t trying to play blatant status moves, would almost certainly have said “water” instead.
Which is a good heuristic (communication should be as clear as possible)… that fails if you are using the foreign word because there literally is no good translation (that would convey the intended connotations).