On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 6:14:34 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
You have no capacity to learn.

I disagree.

Just a couple of years ago, Gerald would have said "quadrature" instead of "widest point". Just a few months ago, he would have said Mercury was in "retrograde" after passing its "widest point", now he says it is "turning back".

He is slowly learning not to use terms he doesn't understand.

Eventually his posts will revert to primary school vocabulary, and match his grasp of astronomy.