[mosaicwolf]

Honestly, I’m just a retired 30 year army veteran and I am to dumb to figure out what the hell this writer is talking about.

[abigailsmybaby]

See post #17. Puts it in a very small nutshell.

[tumblindice]

Thanks for your service! It’s not you, so rest easy.

Here’s the first line of this abstracts modern English/jargon:
“Male and female homosexuality have substantial prevalence in humans.”
I tried to read the article, but it’s so heavily larded that it is nearly incomprehensible, keeping in mind that it is technical, or as the Duck Dynasty guys say, “This is si-intistic stuff!”

So here’s an excerpt from Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”:

“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Here it is in modern English:

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.”

A translation of Rice’s brave first sentence of jargon into good English?
“We’re all gay. More or less.”
Yeah, right.