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Annoying subtitles that bothers Me/Myself and I/ to see them here at this site

… and along comes the perfect example in a recent Japanese drama … “I’ve been at this job for over twenty years but I never experienced any of that. So, I was experiencing the excitement VICARIOUSLY through you”. Whenever did anyone last use that term in a regular conversation? Probably never. It’s the stuff of posh journalism. Indeed, drop it, and the sentence still says what it needs to say without the need of any adverb, least of all such a bookish one.

How would you change that into something befitting a regular conversation? Should they remove all the big words? Should idioms be removed, leaving the bare meaning, also?