Michael Nellis suggested:

> Ah, but you're not writing for the chemist so much as you
> are writing for the layman.  If you come to a passage dealing with
technical
> material, assume the layman you are writing for is more
> familiar with it than you are and present it at your level of
> understanding instead of making it simpler.

Posilutely. When writing non-fiction, write at the highest level you
know, personally, but no higher, that's what I say.

For instance, were I to write about biology, it would be "ankle bone
connected to the leg bone".

Were I to write about parsing, however, it would be indecipherable to
most, but "most" is not the readership of such an article. Those in
the know (the ones who would give a hang about such an article) would
feel I was being rather condescending were I to dumb the thing down.
The ones who don't understand anything but the conjunctions are not
likely to be all that interested in even a dumbed down version of such
a piece.

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