--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > Buck, I also enjoy Carde's posts though I don't understand most of them. He seems very independent and thus likely to continue here, yay, no matter how anyone responds to his stuff.
I enjoy many of them, too, even though I understand none of the Sanskrit references and never hope to. Dead languages are often dead for a reason, and my time is taken up with learning live ones. :-) Card is a wonderful language nerd who gets off on esoteric relationships he finds between languages and interpretations he finds of things he reads in them. I'm not sure he really has much of anyone to really converse with about these subjects here, although it's fine of him to try. I was just poking a little fun at the greater-than-normal obscurity of his latest post, wondering if there is *anyone* here who has any idea what "NSR" refers to. As I'm trying to explain to "Buck" and Doctordumb, I find the *expectation* that the people they're talking to or writing to *have* to "come up to their level" elitist to the max. I also find Doctordumb's assertion that "they should just ask" if they don't understand things to have a subtle and not entirely pleasant intent. That is, the people doing this seek to position *themselves* as the "experts" or "authorities" and *force* people to ask them questions...as if they really were. A better teacher doesn't do this. A better teacher or writer -- one who is actually trying to communicate and who cares about the person he is speaking to -- doesn't go out of his way to exclude them from the conversation. He or she explains possibly unfamiliar terms as he goes along, being *inclusive* as opposed to exclusive. Buck is right that this is a personal issue with me. I'm really not trying to change the way that people on this forum write. I honestly don't believe that many of them *could* change, even if they wanted to. I'm just bringing up some of these points about how jargon is a way to enforce elitism and promote the idea that the person using is is somehow "superior to" the people he's speaking to just to "put it out there" for those who are interested.
