Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.154.24-20130913002452/@comment-11687-20131030225543

67.208.179.66 wrote:

Err, okay...sounds great. I just wish you would use words that sound less formal; it's reminding me too much of my long-winded professors. Not to mention it's hard to understand when your brain has been fried and you're going to the RWBY forum to find some relief only to get this scientific hypothesis.

My apologies for the didactic nature of my previous posts. However, I suspect that it couldn't really be helped. When holding forth on a given point, I prefer to elucidate my reasoning as much as I can so as to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible. Likewise, that sometimes requires the use of "formal-sounding" language, simply because that will oftentimes offer greater precision (which, in a purely text-based medium, is not only invaluable, but very nearly a necessity).

Also, if I may nitpick for a moment; the previous posts did not rise to the level of a (scientific) hypothesis. Rather, as I mentioned above, they were abductive reasoning, which is making inferences to the best explanation, without guaranteeing the conclusion(s) reached.