Not enough math

So, when has a proposal or paper not enough math? When has it too much? Is math the only language that mathematicians speak? Cannot examples in prose often illustrate points more clearly than sigmas and pis?

What does this signify? The end of an age of innocence? Of indolence? Of incompetence? What gives a person the heebie-jeebies about not seeing a list of equations gracing the page?

Mathematics is one way to describe things, and is a very effective means of communicating concepts. I for one am okay at deciphering such script, but there are certain examples that confuse and confound me. And why would I put up with such things? Why would any reader not want to fully understand the author? Unless you're reading poetry.

But enough about semi-probabilistic li'l ol' me and my orthogonal to the norm problems.