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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Antijargon Project - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Ratcourse 05 May 2013 06:02:34PM 7 points [-]

Maybe this should be in the Open Thread?

Nonetheless, I feel that if you can't explain it without using jargon, that gives some evidence for you not understanding it in the first place (whatever it is).

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 06 May 2013 08:38:24AM 8 points [-]

I feel that if you can't explain it without using jargon, that gives some evidence for you not understanding it in the first place (whatever it is).

Eh. Maybe if you're using it in a guessing-the-teacher's-password kind of way, but sometimes you need jargon because you need to say something very precise (e.g. in mathematics).

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