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> we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical. What does that even mean? Arbitrary useless names are better because they are so devoid
by KarlKemp 5y ago
> we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical.
What does that even mean? Arbitrary useless names are better because they are so devoid of meaning? Making things needlessly hard is “professional”? “Professionals” are superior “technical” people that do not respond to inferior human mechanisms such as “making sense”?
- OJFord 5y agoThat it conveys more information to a smaller group of people. If that smaller group is the intended audience, that's better than less information. If the intended audience is broader, less information (layman's terms) might be better. A doctor can say to me 'we think there's a clot and we need to get you to theatre asap' and that's fine, but I hope they say something more technical (that conveys where it is, the nature of it, whatever) to the surgeon!