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It's actual a real problem with people who are moderately good at math:

They sabotage explanations to laypeople by incorrectly nitpicking technical details because they hear informal language that sounds similar to something they know, and rush to regurgitate that fact as a "correction" without really understanding the conversation -- and will insist on doing so unless you use language too sophisticated for the audience you were trying to reach in the first place.

This actually happens with nearly every field, I just experience it most with math -- it's probably related to Dunning Kreuger or whatever.

C'est la vie.