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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5896451" data-attributes="member: 56189">Plus ten billion.There was a recent interview on the Colbert Report with a professor who wrote a book (I can't remember what it was) about literacy rates going down and how university degrees require far less analytical and intellectual thought because they've been reduced to multiple answer questions instead of essays. Or something like that, I can't remember the details.My point is that accessibility shouldn't require the dumbing down of the language. Unless it's explaining a rule, in which case it should be as clear as possible, prosaic explanations, imaginative prose, and the use of a wide vocabulary should absolutely be a part of D&amp;D. I used to carry a massive dictionary around with my D&amp;D books and considered it a part of my collection solely because whenever I would hear or read a word I didn't know the meaning of, I'd want to immediately look it up.The youth of today are so damned lazy they can't even be bothered to use capital letters at the start of sentences, let alone half-decent grammar or spelling. It drives me bananas that I, someone who dropped out of high school before the senior years, have better spelling and a wider vocabulary than people in university!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 5896451, member: 56189"] Plus ten billion. There was a recent interview on the Colbert Report with a professor who wrote a book (I can't remember what it was) about literacy rates going down and how university degrees require far less analytical and intellectual thought because they've been reduced to multiple answer questions instead of essays. Or something like that, I can't remember the details. My point is that accessibility shouldn't require the dumbing down of the language. Unless it's explaining a rule, in which case it should be as clear as possible, prosaic explanations, imaginative prose, and the use of a wide vocabulary should absolutely be a part of D&D. I used to carry a massive dictionary around with my D&D books and considered it a part of my collection solely because whenever I would hear or read a word I didn't know the meaning of, I'd want to immediately look it up. The youth of today are so damned lazy they can't even be bothered to use capital letters at the start of sentences, let alone half-decent grammar or spelling. It drives me bananas that I, someone who dropped out of high school before the senior years, have better spelling and a wider vocabulary than people in university! [/QUOTE]

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