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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferrix" data-source="post: 1892514" data-attributes="member: 6115">I've been keeping up with this thread since it started and I can't help but get quite the laugh out of it.  A number of people have pointed out various errors in Nisarg's thought, and given them the correct names.  And I find it humorous that he just comes rampaging back with conflated statistics linking circumstances that were likely at best barely related, or ad hominem whereby he attacks specific persons from the industry saying that because they have a dot in their name they must be "all high and mighty".If you, Nisarg, want to remove all words of an exacting form from anything ever written or spoken, you'd do well to move to a tiny backwoods hut all by yourself, because otherwise you'll encounter them all over the place.  (The Alzhiemer's example was a good one).  Unless of course you are going to hang all the academics and burn all the books.Really, I hate to say it but get a dictionary and realize that some of the words being used can't be deflated into simpler terms.The excerpt you copied from the Forge had a more accurate interpretation by Kajamba Lion, rather than your own.  I have visited the Forge in the past, although I don't find it my cup of tea as a gamer, I'm also quite intrigued by it as an academic student myself.  Calling them pretentious and declaring that they engage solely in mental masturbation are two different things.  "Mental masturbation" is often a catch-all phrase often employed, in a derisory manner, regarding those who practice forms of deeper analysis and construction which do not exhibit superficially visible practical reasons.  By calling them pretentious you are saying that those who are writing are bloating their work for the very specific reason of making it look important.However, have you ever read a very technical electronics manual.  You aren't going to understand all of that unless you have electrical training, yet it isn't being pretentious.  The same goes for at least some of the work that goes on at Forge, however you need some experience to understand the terms they are using.In my experience, I'm an undergraduate student in philosophy in my final year, if you bloat your writings with useless tripe to make yourself look "smart" the professors are going to catch you on it.  Often times the first draft of a work is cut down a great deal to remove extraneous sentences/paragraphs/words which detract from the overall work.  The more common place to find pretentious writing is in less formally trained writers work, not that it is always the case.Alright, probably too much writing, so it'll turn into a return post of "you're one of them! You pretentious git attack."</blockquote>

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