Do you "talk like a book?"

A long-distance ex of mine said this some years ago, and I think about it a lot. This really has more to do with text communication, not spoken communication. I was really into creative writing growing up, and a lot of my English/language arts classes in school placed a lot of emphasis on "propriety." In middle school, we were only allowed to write in cursive. In one of my high school English classes, you'd get points taken off your paper any time you used "is" or "was" in a sentence. Because of that and the fact that I didn't do much texting until college, a lot of my written language is/was very flowery (less so now, I think). But my ex said I text like I'm writing a book, and that pops in my head quite a bit, though I don't know how to feel about it. I use Grammarly, and it's always giving me pointers on how to be more personable in my writing lol. I definitely don't "write fancy," but I think sometimes my word choice is unnecessarily stuffy.

Talking is hard, sometimes, too. I feel like I have 100 different phrases knocking around in my head, and I recycle 50 of them in a day 😭 I like writing more, but I'm getting burnt out on communicating with people regularly, lowkey. Like, if I have the option of asking the person next to me for some water while we're in the hot sun, I'd rather get it myself or go thirsty lol