Silvered Glass on the RPG.net forums has a remarkably excellent summery of rec.games.frp.advocacy theory discussions. RGFA created what was probably the first coherent critical model of RPGs – a thread that would be later picked up by The Forge and Ron Edwards specifically, though as the thread addresses, many of the terms would undergo some (often ill-defined) shifts in usage, one of the reasons that Forge theory is considered somewhat obtuse.
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Useful. Tangential to that, the subject of exclusionary vocabulary among theorists in any subject somewhat interests me. I think it sort of happened as a matter of course in most scientific disciplines, some terms being simply archaic, and others just not mapping very effectively to useful English words. And then I have a suspicion critical theorists either thought it was entertaining or impressive-sounding to develop their own vocabulary.
Either way, some specialized vocab is probably a necessity for developing really abstract models of *anything*. However, if people would (well, for rpg theory, they are) publish their shitz on the web, there are some really easy solutions to this issue in the form of hypertexting and/or providing a goddam glossary.
Basically what I mean is, the world needs more specialist glossaries.
There is, technically, a glossary for the Forge’s Big Theory, but I’m waiting until I understand it and its numerous appendices and linked threads before I post it.