Note on Plain Language and Confusion

[PuppyHate]

Your videos always have the nicest backgrounds. At least most of them.

[HumanTruth0000]

Valid points, but practicality needed sometime. Are we going to tear down every concept/word we given meaning to?(however arbitrary). Language/confusion good, but we also need practicality is my point. We cant just blindly be adding bs all the time. What does "adding" even mean? What does mean even mean? Meaning has no meaning if it does not even mean mean. What is the meaning of meaning? What is "what". It is not just exploration of confusion at all times. Sometimes we need practicality too.

[HumanTruth0000]

Thank u for PM. I send u another one.. Yeah, it is valid to be confused and create confusion, but u also say that confusion makes knowledge/clarity. So when we gain some clarity, do we confuse it again?. Yes, confuse it again, gain more clarity... valid again, but also sometimes practicality. I mean even a "cat" is not a cat but some arbitrary thing we called it, but cat is all we got so lets not go overboard and start questioning the "cat" 100% of the time , at every second for all time.

[pyrrho314]

well, that's an open question, everyone may have an answer of course, but yeah, I think it goes on forever, nodes of understanding, never fully settled, eventually to be broken down and replaced with improved ideas.

[funeralsong34]

Understanding is more about the brain trying to compare and contrast your knowledge base with what your trying to explain. If your explaining soccer and I have never heard of soccer before, I try to compare your description with the closest possible thing in my head. Its a sport with a round ball, I might think basketball,baseball etc and keep trying to narrow it down with other things I know. Understanding has nothing to do with confusion but with finding a common ground on something.

[pyrrho314]

confusion is on the path to that common ground, it does not have to be total confusion, and it does not have to be unpleasant. Personally I like the slight confusion involved in learning.

[funeralsong34]

yeah in learning but I think what your saying is more in line with curiousity or a drive to find the answer which understanding is the end result. Idk I think of the as 2 different things confusion (thirst for the answer) then understanding (achieving the answer) seeing that one may be confused and may want to seek the answer but not necessarily ever understand it.

[jogayot]

bah... confusionistic appologetica simpleciensis

[TheAngryCanuck]

For the most part, I disagree. Usually people can get the point without using the big words. It also can cost subs and viewership from the younger audience. I wouldn't use big words on Youtube.

[Luke12000]

great video, you made that nice and clear...

[GeraldP1983]

How did you get this video to have the "Watch this video in higher quality" option? :D

[pyrrho314]

I didn't do anything in particular... hmm.

[dogatron]

talk about increased confusion...

[GeraldP1983]

Amen!

[angryislander56]

Have you noticed that the people who rail against

semantics are frequently the people who are the

most sure?

[pyrrho314]

yes... discussing semantics creates confusion, threatens certainty, and is unbearable for the certain, and hard to bear for most the rest.

[dogatron]

I think you can apply the same thing expressed here about language to humans/cultures. We generalise/determine human behaviour based on western experience because including other cultures may add too much discomfort/confusion...general­s vs particulars perhaps [/Mr Tangent]

[azrienoch]

Favorited within the first minute.

[0ThouArtThat0]

me too, great vid.

[pyrrho314]

thanks, but I have to say I find it funny because it's predictable as are three people that will typically get this sort of complaint... all while we're trying to simplify something!

It took me years to realize the people telling me I was hard to understand really were expressing how hard I am to misunderstand.

[SCW01902]

A wise man once said to me..."Keep it simple, stupid". If only life was so simple...

[EDGWOPO]

dont poke your eye out dude!

is that plain enough?

[pyrrho314]

I have no eyes, it's very thoughtless of you to joke about it!

[falconelly]

fatal attraction that I poking.

Certainty is the most confusing of things. The blind are surely blinded, but by whom or what I wonder. In realms of much needed gestalt one can guess that the blind may instigate this visionary deception simply to be understood perhaps.