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April 15, 2013 01:24 pm PDT
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Yet another reason why jargon sucks
Yes, it's useful for communicating within your group, but as soon as you step outside that circle jargon becomes a problem. That's true even for scientists trying to communicate between disciplines and sub-disciplines of a field. At Ars Technica, John Timmer talks about jargon acronyms that look the same, but mean totally different things depending [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LMaA3dB1w_A/story01.htm
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