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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6248453" data-attributes="member: 2525">Yes.  And frankly, if that's not bloody obvious to you, then I think you and I are failing to communicate well also.Say that sentence to someone you know at work.  Ask them if they have any idea what it means.  I suspect they will answer "no, no clue."  Unless of course you work at a University, or some game companies.Thank you for that explanation.  I genuinely appreciate it.  I am sure I could have gotten there if I had tried to parse it all and slowly break it down, but it would have felt like digging a ditch.  You were able to explain it in conversational English.  All I am asking is that he does the same.I did not view it as an attack.  He expressed my sentiments exactly, though I'd have left off the show-off part.  And it's not like billd91 and I know each other and spoke about it at all.  I think it's no coincidence that both of use felt exactly the same way about what he'd said.  You will note, if you look at my reputation comments, that others also felt the same way.I think it was warranted, I do not think it was cheap, and I cannot speak for billd91 but I can speak for myself and say I'd definitely have said that in real life, except for the show-off part.  My brother is a professor.  My sister-in-law is a professor.  My two best friends are professors.  A third friend was a professor and is now a Chancellor.  I have a doctorate, and I now run a business that sells Doctoral Regalia to professors.  Most of those people slip into Academia-Speak occasionally.  So I have a lot of experience with Academia-Speak.And when I run into someone from Academia that starts to talk like that, I let them know what they're doing.  Sometimes they don't realize they're even speaking Academia instead of Conversational English, but more often they are aware of it and doing it for tactical reasons which are best countered by simply calling it out for what it is.I have no idea what Pemerton's motivations were, and I am not assuming they were negative (I suspect they were not in fact, which is why I'd have left off the show-off part).  But, billd91's description of how it came across to him, is similar to how it comes across to me, and based on some rep I got it's how it came across to others.  I thought his reaction was entirely appropriate given the circumstances, and I am glad he said it.  People should hear how they sound to others, particularly if they seem unaware.</blockquote>

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