It's not that I don't get Ray -- I totally do. He's so damned expressive, definitely! It's just that my mother instilled in me a love of multisyllabic words, so when I put fingers to keyboard, Fraser-ish vocabulary come out. Naturally. Any time I'm writing! (And I was later adopted into an Italian family -- so, oh yes, I get RayV, too!) I'm just having to go back through my Ray POV and pull out the compound sentences, convoluted phraseology, the preference for long words, etc.