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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9497170" data-attributes="member: 177">No, it isn't.  Below is why...Yeah, but pemerton, EN World isn't made up of analysts.  The bulk of us are hobbyists.I'm a physicist, we've got jargon enough to stuff a library and more.  We have entire mathematical languages that aren't used by anyone else!  But, we can't communicate to non-physicists with that jargon. They lose comprehension, their eyes glaze over, and the result is gobbledigook to them.  There is a reason the smartest man in physics  wrote a book for laymen, and used only one equation (E=mc^2) in the entire book.Jargon is typically only useful within the specialist community.  If you've become a specialist/analyst in a field, you generally have to code switch (use different language) if you want to communicate the same concepts to folks outside it.The community here is not specialists, but hobbyists.  They have some jargon of the general field, but not the deep specifics you are using.  Nor do they generally have the time or inclination to spend the same time you did pouring over the Forge to get those words down pat, nevermind embracing all the changes in language in the decades since the Forge was a big deal.If a specialist posts in a hobbyist space insisting on using the academic, jargon-filled language, the effect is to dominate discussion and exclude those who aren't up on the language. First, no, you don't typically need to learn the jargon for specific, focused tasks.  I replaced a faucet.  I had to get a special wrench to reach under and around the sink basin in the cramped cabinet.  I have no idea what the thing is called.Also, I think you mistake your position.  Plumbers are not analysts - they are technicians.  And when they speak to a homeowner, or make a video, they keep the language in as much common speech as possible, because if they become hard to follow, the viewers go to another video. If one self-styles as an analyst, in this analogy they are a fluid-dynamics engineer, trying to explain how to unclog a drain using viscous flow differential equations.  Great for talking about details and techniques with other fluid-dynamics engineers, kinda junk for an instructional video.Are they not interested in analyzing their play, or are they not interested in wading through the language barrier, or your style of presentation, to do it?  The two cases would look the same.Lots of specialists, with a bunch of knowledge in their head, think they are primed to also be able to teach.  But teaching is a different skillset form analysis.  Most of my department were brilliant physicists, but only a few were actually good at teaching physics.</blockquote>

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