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I read "language lawyering" as a person who sees language not as a means to communicate ideas in good faith, but as a weapon, a means to an end. The type of per
by flangola7 4y ago
I read "language lawyering" as a person who sees language not as a means to communicate ideas in good faith, but as a weapon, a means to an end. The type of person who will nitpick and engage in prescriptive behaviors like quoting literal dictionary definitions back at a person rather than address the meaning and intent that they have obviously conveyed.
- noduerme 4y agoMaybe, but this was used in the same breath as design patterns and software architecture. Those both are inevitably opinionated. I personally don't think engineers should get married to one set of patterns or architecture; we should keep learning on the job and find new tools, the best tools that suit the schema. But conflating what may well be good arguments for a design pattern with bad-faith "lawyering" shows a high level of contempt for the people OP would be working with, and suggests OP was more put off by the style of debate than they were by the content.