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Item 1 is especially bad because the whole intent of jargon is to be clear to readers of the same or similar technical level. There's an engineer at work who oc
by jschwartzi 9y ago
Item 1 is especially bad because the whole intent of jargon is to be clear to readers of the same or similar technical level. There's an engineer at work who occasionally tries to harangue me into applying these rules to technical documents and emails to other engineers because she thinks they're "unclear." They're not unclear, she just doesn't have the technical aptitude in my field to read them.
- Nomentatus 9y agoAgreed. As anyone exposed to the media in general knows, we do have a very strong preference for "clear but mistaken" and "false as stated" utterances. Any nuance is quickly labeled a "mixed message" and eliminated - as if the universe never contained a mix of anything that one might want to talk about.