ShardPhoenix comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: dbaupp 26 October 2011 08:11:20AM *  2 points [-]

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

This isn't a criticism, but one has to be careful to avoid becoming too general by using a slightly inappropriate everyday "equivalent" (which is the point of scientific/jargon words), especially with some of the material on this site.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 27 October 2011 11:01:57AM 1 point [-]

Presumably that's where (vi) comes in.

Comment author: dbaupp 27 October 2011 02:28:09PM 0 points [-]

Yep