Somehow it troubles me to see someone calling down programmers who doesn't know "charade" from "facade" "verbosity" from -- well, maybe he means verbiage and

Somehow it troubles me to see someone calling down programmers who doesn't know "charade" from "facade" "verbosity" from -- well, maybe he means verbiage and whose writing would get a charity C+ at a good high school. Key observations: "1. Perhaps more than any other profession, programmers try to impress and intimidate others with their technical jargon. Such language usually masks inadequacies elsewhere." Read some social science texts, my friend; hell, read any literary criticism dating from about the 1920s on. Jargon has its purpose, and in computing it serves well. "2. Be leery of programmers that are pseudo-intellectual. They are probably hiding something." If only one knew what "pseudo-intellectual" meant. Is a programmer pseudo-intellectual if he says "Bryce, your prose--res ipsa loquitur!" Is a blogger pseudo-intellectual if he calls his ramblings "theory P", or his observations a philosophy?