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Originally posted by assignmentmaker
simple means simple. Simplistic is pejorative.
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I don't want to get into a war of words, but simplistic means "an instance of oversimplifying; especially : the reduction of a problem to a false simplicity by ignoring complicating factors". (And there is no negative connotation noted in the m-w definition.) This is what your description of the NBA rule did. Over-simplified by ignoring the complicating factors.
It wasn't a slip of the tongue, nor was it pejorative.
Your friendly neighborhood Grammar Guy.
