[dash2]

Yeah, as a scientist I can read most Science or Nature articles in most fields, and get a rough idea. Not every piece of jargon, but I can understand roughly what they did, read the graphs and figure out the result. A friend sent me his maths PhD and I did not understand a single sentence.

[Myrmornis]

That's not because the nomenclature is bad, it's because the concepts in advanced mathematics are further from our familiarity zone. In other words because it's hard.

[lanstin]

Both unfamiliar and hard. :)