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gjm comments on Antijargon Project - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: jkaufman 05 May 2013 05:26PM

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Comment author: gjm 06 May 2013 12:09:20AM 5 points [-]

This seems nonresponsive to jkaufman's stated reason for trying to minimize jargon instead of using it optimally, namely this:

If we were smart enough to keep up fully independent vocabularies where we would always use the right words for the people we were talking to, this wouldn't be an issue. But instead we get in the habit of saying weird words, and then when we want to talk to people who don't know those words we either struggle to find words they know or waste a lot of time introducing words.