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Having been an academic, this article confused two things. The use of jargon is often justified, as specialists often use particular words to encapsulated comp
by rwj 11y ago
Having been an academic, this article confused two things. The use of jargon is often justified, as specialists often use particular words to encapsulated complicated but also well defined concepts. Having seen the confusion that comes when hidden assumptions are allowed to change (equivocation), the use of jargon will not go away.
The problem that I see is that translating ideas into words takes work. Jargon can also be translated. But unless the incentives are in place, this work won't be done.
(I set aside the question of people who deliberately obfuscate. This is simply compounding incompetence with fraud.)
- sitkack 11y agoHaving been a bureaucrat, this article was spot on. Of course some jargon is necessary to communicate ideas in a particular domain. But many domains are now using fancy words merely as a social norm which serves to distance and elevate the clique.