Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1892927" data-attributes="member: 19893">What you're talking about is &quot;jargon&quot;, and of course jargon is important.. a set of terms that everyone in a particular study, practice, hobby,club etc. understands, a set of definitions that wouldn't nescessarily mean anything to an outsider but that people on the inside understand.The problem is when you start creating unnescessary jargon (which many of the kind of academic plague situations.. be they in academia or gaming, do), making up words for things that could be described with regular words without any lesser efficiency. Ie. if instead of &quot;house&quot; you say &quot;chancel&quot;, or instead of speed you say &quot;celerity&quot;. This is often done pretentiously by using more archaic words or by using real or fake latinate. Whether its in a paper or an RPG, whenever you see someone replacing common anglo-saxon words with more esoteric latin, greek or sanskrit terms, you can be pretty certain that they've caught the academic plague.Also, you've really created an intellectual cesspool once you start defining jargon with other jargon.Yes, the use of common terms in uncommon ways is another surefire sign of academic plague. This is a problem that's found often on the Forge and in GNS theory, where terms like &quot;narrativist&quot; or &quot;gamist&quot; don't really mean what one would intuitively take them to mean. Ron Edwards does this almost constantly.Nisarg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nisarg, post: 1892927, member: 19893"] What you're talking about is "jargon", and of course jargon is important.. a set of terms that everyone in a particular study, practice, hobby,club etc. understands, a set of definitions that wouldn't nescessarily mean anything to an outsider but that people on the inside understand. The problem is when you start creating unnescessary jargon (which many of the kind of academic plague situations.. be they in academia or gaming, do), making up words for things that could be described with regular words without any lesser efficiency. Ie. if instead of "house" you say "chancel", or instead of speed you say "celerity". This is often done pretentiously by using more archaic words or by using real or fake latinate. Whether its in a paper or an RPG, whenever you see someone replacing common anglo-saxon words with more esoteric latin, greek or sanskrit terms, you can be pretty certain that they've caught the academic plague. Also, you've really created an intellectual cesspool once you start defining jargon with other jargon. Yes, the use of common terms in uncommon ways is another surefire sign of academic plague. This is a problem that's found often on the Forge and in GNS theory, where terms like "narrativist" or "gamist" don't really mean what one would intuitively take them to mean. Ron Edwards does this almost constantly. Nisarg [/QUOTE]

Verification