What's on your mind?

[Siletrea]

this is my first time trying out this "on your mind" thing ...so hi!

ok now to mini vent

honest question. WHY do professional grade anythings use 100 dollar terms when you can easily use a ten cent term? when I Personally try to explane anything technical to my mother/friends I use terms everyone will understand
example is 3D Modeling and animation (which I know quite well)

the proper definition for Vertex is: "Vertices: The point of intersection between three or more edges is called a vertex (pl. vertices). Manipulation of vertices on the x, y, and z-axes (affectionately referred to as "pushing and pulling verts") is the most common technique for shaping a polygonal mesh into it's final shape in traditional modeling packages like Maya, 3Ds Max, etc. (Techniques are very, very different in sculpting applications like ZBrush or Mudbox.) "

I would never describe it like this to anyone so why is this terminology used?

if someone asked me off of the street what Vertex is in 3d modeling I would NOT tell them the wiki answer as that definition even confuses me even though I know what it is
I would say: "Vertex in a 3d model are little dots that help shape the model and have little flat paper thin "sheets" similar to paper connecting the "Vertex" dots together so it is technically a models skin/clothes... there are many programs for 3d Modeling
some are Maya3D/Blender/Zbrush and theres many more that you can get from the internet"

this definiton makes sence and helps show a mental picture to the person as to what it is and what it does

but unfourtunatly 3D modeling and animation arent the only ones doing this as I mostly see it in ALL scripting languages
I've done Python for about 5 months with 0 success for even the simplist "Hello world" sequence (can't do hello world in any Computer language)
I've tried C++ (broke my website account page by trying to customise it with a picture background)
I've tried Java (that was a few months of hell with way to many terms and broken accounts)
Ive done Ruby for longer then anything else (as Ive been trying to learn at least 1 of the computer languages for 2 years...namely RGSS3 and RGSS1) and the only thing Ive ever done right without the aid of 17 hour long youtube lectures and 87 hours of reading between a dictionary and the terminology shown in the RPG XP manuals is make a script thats litterally this

print ("Hello")

this made a popup box before the game that said hello
thats it
and it took me 4 frustrating headache inducing hours to do it

the constant battle I face Personally with all of the Languages (3D animation/Modeling/Scripting/Programming) is the exact same thing "TERMINOLOGY"
using a $100 word when a 10cent will do
I'm not sure whether I'm having these issues due to my autisum as I tend to catch on VERY quickly when I go hands on!
but with computer languages I cannot do that to learn and this is where I'm finding out my biggest flaw.... that flaw being
"my brain cannot remember huge terms if it cannot oversimplify it enough to remember it without causing excruciating pain" (also I cry from constant failures...shocked about that one...did not know I was an internal wimp even when I'm not sad)
this makes me feel overly Incompetant A.K.A useless (I specified that to show what I mean and to help others not reach for a dictionary)

so why is this done?
I asked my mother and her answer was "Ego"
when I asked her to explane she simply stated that "having Huge confusing and semi pointless over terminology is something people create to make themselves feel smarter and boosts their ego...while making newbies suffer"

now I usually take my Ma's (usually sarcastic) answers with a light grain of salt. But today her answer clicked in the right way...A HUGE realization
"the worlds getting confusing because of people trying to sound smarter then they are"
this can actually be proven as well

ever looked at an older Math book from 10 years back? and was able to guess or even understand what its trying to teach even if the book is 2 to 5 years ahead of your own level?
you can't do that with a new book
Ive tried
they over complicate the terminology and presentation to the point of insanity
CONSTANLY trying to force you to learn $100 terms when the simple $10 cent word will work better

this is mostly shown in scripting languages that Ive seen

"print"
"attr"
"scene"
"+="
"[ { ("

why not have "type" be also used if wanted? type ("hello") works just as well as print ("hello") and makes sence

"attr"? whats "attr" stand for again?...attributes?...attractions? why not just type the full word?

"scene" ok this somewhat makes sence so I'm not going to complain this time

"+=" what the H3LL is this?! "+="? is that how we ADD? why not just use a + or say "add" this is crazy!

[{( why do we use all 3? why can't we use the normal (?..I do know that Math uses { in algebra but its used in highschool and easily taught to everyone...Noone uses [ unless its an really fancy Emoji like this: [▓▓] <== I think its a blanket?

just my thoughts on Terminology and Scripting Languages
sorry if I'm a tad crude and blunt..Ive had a long bad day and my head has been hurting for 3 days trying to comprehend why I have to use a dictionary to translate the words that RPGmakerXP's RGSS scripting area in the manual uses to try and explane the fancy RGSS terms
heres the entire manual to elaborate my point and hopefully it helps other wannabe scripters learn the terms (if they have a very good dictionary on hand)

http://www.rpg-maker.fr/dl/monos/aide/xp...index.html

have a great day everyone