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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6372920" data-attributes="member: 40166">You've replaced a two syllable word with four words and 11 syllables; that makes everything easier to read. Not only that, you replaced a word with another word that is one-fourth as common as the one you started with, so obviously replacing a word with its definition does not always make things clearer. While we're bagging on jargon, even after supplementing Ogden's Basic  English with some 8000 words, "friggen", "specialty" and "shorthand" are  still not found. (Heck, I can't even find friggen in any dictionary at hand.) I'm pretty sure if we go to Newspeak, we will miss  more words, and the fact we have to use the definitions won't make any  harder to speak of them.In any case, according to Daniel Webster's 1828 dictionary, agency means "1.  The quality of moving or of exerting power; the state of being in  action; action; operation; instrumentality; as, the agency of providence  in the natural world." It's not jargon or "specialized game design phraseology". It's a word that's been used in English with this meaning for over 300 years.I offer you the Up Goer Five, <a href="http://xkcd.com/1133/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/1133/</a> . I mean, you know exactly what that offers the schematics of without even looking at them, right? Not being able to use the word Saturn in the title didn't at all obfuscate what that meant. I am saying exactly what I mean. It's non-trivial to dumb down my language, particularly when I'm dealing with a mixed audience that I don't know much about the average or specific education level of, especially without people feeling condescended to, and it never comes as close to what I mean as when I use the full extent of my vocabulary and choose words that have the denotation and connotation that fit what I need.And it really does seem a bizarre contradiction to refuse to say what "Hugh Howey's reports" are and yet demand that standard specialized game design phraseology that you know where to find the definitions of must not only be defined but not used.</blockquote>

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