I suppose literature and sports are understandable to everyone. People might not know the individual fact but they understand the meaning and can at least try t

I suppose literature and sports are understandable to everyone. People might not know the individual fact but they understand the meaning and can at least try to remember something. In STEM, you'd get "stand-and-stare" with any technical term where the entire field is completely alien to most viewers and players. The same effect happens in casual conversation. Arts majors have all kinds of accessible topics they like to talk about with anyone, but a programmer can't even begin to say something about stacks or garbage collection or whatever with a non-programmer. It's a totally walled off other-world for most people.