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Please don’t be too harsh on the researchers here. It’s frighteningly common for university press teams to butcher attempts at explanation in these press releas
by jtc42 3y ago
Please don’t be too harsh on the researchers here. It’s frighteningly common for university press teams to butcher attempts at explanation in these press releases, which sometimes go out without the researchers seeing the headline and subheading.
You can see how an explanation of using a 4-dimensional parameter space with a “synthetic dimension” to model this thing could get misconstrued by a press team.
- hinkley 3y agoI wrote one article for JavaWorld three lifetimes ago, and had to practically fight with the copy editor who kept rephrasing things until I sounded like an absolute idiot. Jargon is jargon, and I hate using it to sound smart, so unless I’m having an awful day, if I used it or another technical term then I bloody well needed it. Synonyms and metaphors won’t do. I try to remember that experience, which marks the death of any dreams I might have harbored of ever writing more than an occasional blog and wiki pages, when we start murdering an article. Mostly it comes out as contempt for the chain of command in editorial staff, which ends up being found out to be the source of the problems far, far too frequently. Who watches the watchers?