hyporational comments on The Relevance of Advanced Vocabulary to Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 28 November 2013 03:05:53PM 3 points [-]

It's not useful if other people don't understand it. If you're communicating with other experts, it's very useful.

Med students for example have to learn thousands of new words to practice as doctors and without this communication would get ridiculously long-winded.