From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:23:39 -0500, William Vetter   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > For a few years, I was taking pictures for a guy at NASA   
   > Glenn, and he sent me a manuscript with my name on the   
   > masthead for to comment/correct.  And this guy was   
   > otherwise very agreeable to work with, but it took me   
   > hours to figure out what he was even talking about when I   
   > read his manuscripts.  It was full of lines like   
      
   > "The substrate was reticulated."   
      
   Not a very good example:  is a bog standard   
   technical term in several fields, and I’ve been familiar   
   with  since before I hit my teens.  This is   
   clear technical language.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)