[dragon96]

> My biggest complaint is that the jargon is just out of control.

I don't see how this is true unless you are memorizing the wiki like a dictionary. I can only think of 9 words that I use commonly in games (sente, gote, seki, ko, atari, hane, aji, tenuki, komi). Sure, I think the English Go community could try (and probably has tried) to reinvent translations for each of these, but they probably wouldn't catch on. "Seki" is easier to say than "mutual life", "sente" is more precise and easier to say than "initiative", "ko" is just ko.

I just don't feel like learning new words is any more difficult than keeping track of algebraic notation in chess, and I think it's just part of the commentating culture of both games.

> Which ruleset should I use?

As a beginner, you shouldn't worry about which one you use. They're almost the same except on some edge cases.