Stop Using Scientific Language

[zurew]

I obviously grant that you can abuse language and that you can purposefully obfuscate, but for you to be able to make that judgement (to judge what is and what is not obfuscation), you need to know the target audience   and the content of the message that needs to be conveyed and the goal of the communication (because otherwise, your judgement just gonna be a judgement from below).

Once the target audience is clear and once it is clear what is the info that needs to be conveyed and communicated, and once it is clear what is the goal behind communicating the message, from then on,  you will be able to use that as a norm to roughly judge how the message can be expressed better given those constrains (given the constrains of the target audience and info and goal ) . Btw by 'better'  here I just mean how digestible the given message is for the target audience and how short you can convey the same amount of info and how much you can achieve your goal with the message.

 

Lets say for the sake of a hypothetical that channeling aliens is real and that it can be done. I would be really curious to know what standards some of you would use to judge whether the alien is obfuscating or not.  (this is related to my issue about judging from below).

Edited 12 hours ago by zurew