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It is very clear cut. Trevor is a great guy, but he is not a D&DN designer. He is a WoTC employee. His opinion on the intent of a rule is no different than the opinion of any other reader or playtester, and he is not privy to the actual design process. Mike is the LEAD D&DN designer. He LEADS the actual design process. Mike spoke about wanting to do this in a L&L article. Now Mike has explicitly tweated that the current rules are working as intended. You get your dice EACH turn. That is the intent. And that is clear cut. 

PinkRose, your original question was ambigous because you gave a X or Y situation where X was impossible since you cannot use your d6 over and over to parry as a Reaction. Mike's answer was still correct in saying Martial Damage Dice is once per turn. Martial Damage Dice is usable once per turn and you can thus use them on your turn and on other creature's turn to parry. Its Trevor who implied that Martial Damage Dice refreshed at the begining of your turn whie the Packet doesn't say so. 

The Packet says this:  

Once per turn,... you can add your martial damage.

When you spend a martial damage die, you cannot use it again on the same turn.

Attitude? I didn't think my post had any... but then many people say that my writing often seems to contain some artifact that comes across as attitude, and I have not narrowed down exactly what that is as of yet, so I believe that it was there. It was not intended though.

In any case, I think that it is "confusing" because people have a hard time dealing with change. The actual rules are quite clear. But, people are used to the way it worked in the last few playtest packets, and so they are having a hard time adjusting. 

In any case, while you gain your martial damage dice every turn, you can still only parry once per round (not turn). While your dice are a turn based resource, a parry requires a reaction. Reactions are a round based resource. So, despite your dice being usable in full every turn, you can still only parry once a round. That is what Mike was saying with that tweet.