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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6248632" data-attributes="member: 2525">I disagree.&nbsp; The rest of his post was filled with Academia-Speak as well.&nbsp; For example he spends a long paragraph talking about &quot;action resolution&quot; and &quot;adjudicative roles&quot; in &quot;health states&quot;.&nbsp; What he means, in Conversational English, is we don't know how wounded PCs are when they lose hit points.&nbsp; But that's not how he says it - he says it in a very obscure, wordy, and jargon-laden manner.&nbsp; I don't think it's at all snark to say to someone &quot;cut out the obfuscation and academic vocabulary, if you want to communicate with me&quot;.&nbsp; It's a statement of fact - his choice of language is failing to communicate with a notable portion of his audience.&nbsp; If he wants to communicate, he's going to have to adapt his language to one his audience can more easily understand - it's not this audience's job to adapt to try and understand him.&nbsp; If he doesn't care about communicating well with his audience, that's fine.&nbsp; But, then it's also fine to point it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6248632, member: 2525"] I disagree. The rest of his post was filled with Academia-Speak as well. For example he spends a long paragraph talking about "action resolution" and "adjudicative roles" in "health states". What he means, in Conversational English, is we don't know how wounded PCs are when they lose hit points. But that's not how he says it - he says it in a very obscure, wordy, and jargon-laden manner. I don't think it's at all snark to say to someone "cut out the obfuscation and academic vocabulary, if you want to communicate with me". It's a statement of fact - his choice of language is failing to communicate with a notable portion of his audience. If he wants to communicate, he's going to have to adapt his language to one his audience can more easily understand - it's not this audience's job to adapt to try and understand him. If he doesn't care about communicating well with his audience, that's fine. But, then it's also fine to point it out. [/QUOTE]

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