Quote from bundlemaker:
I suggest another possiblity to the answer of this question. I don't suppose to be an expert at what I'm going to mention, but I can tell you I do have a great deal of knowledge and experience in the area in question.
Lingquistics.
What virtually no one realizes is that they don't know how they talk or even understand what they hear. The process of verbal communication is in fact a hypnotic process. Communication involves altered states.
Much research and study was done on this in the 1970's. What was found is that language comes in different sizes, ie. levels of precision. I noted elsewhere in another thread that a writer suggested it best to agree on defintions. This is impossible to do at a very deep accurate level.
Most communication is based on an assumed agreement of meaning and in that is lost about 99% of accurate, precise meaning.
Jack is rarely talking cryptically, if indeed he ever is. He is just speaking in a way that is totally unabiguous. Unfortunately, most of us never recognize it. Let me give you an example. Channels. Most of us refer to upper and lower channel lines. This becomes ambiguous unless we add more data to what we are describing (ie is it support or resistance to which we refer). Jack uses the terms "left" and "right". Many people blast him for being hard to understand and using non-standard terms.
The fact is using left and right is 100% unambiguous. Jack's level of precision is so far above most anyone else on Elite that the incongruency creates a great deal of frustration.
If you want to understand Jack just pay attention in a literal way and play along. You learn much much faster in a spirit of humor than in any other way.
