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Dan_Moore comments on Antijargon Project - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Emile 06 May 2013 08:32:45AM 9 points [-]

I agree that the distinction between neologisms and overloading existing words is an important one (and your examples are good!) - but I think the ordinary understanding of "jargon" covers both.

If someone announces "I'm going to stop using jargon!", and goes on to say things like "steel man", "shut up and multiply", "dark arts", then most people will agree he failed. The list of LessWrong Jargon contains plenty of non-neologisms like that.

Neologisms are a bit more obvious, but even the distinction between somewhat rare words (like "neologism") and specialized jargon (like "overloading") is pretty fuzzy.

Comment author: Dan_Moore 09 May 2013 03:14:45PM *  1 point [-]

The list of LessWrong Jargon contains plenty of non-neologisms like that.

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