Every specialization has its own technical language. Finance, law, engineering, healthcare, etc.. are equally linguistically opaque to the outside observer.
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Using "linguistically opaque" in your sentence is a perfect example of what I'm getting at.
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Why so much Latin still? Like "that is," is much nicer than "i.e."
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AGREE
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Dunno, but I fight it in my field. My motto is: if your grandma can't understand what you're writing, you're doing it wrong. Also feeling the importance of this, seing how many colleagues had their book manuscripts rejected yet mine was accepted with minor revisions.
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Oh nice, congrats! And agree with the grandma thing
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I think the root of why is that they want to use formal language to try and be comprehensive and clear...but it ends up becoming convoluted, confusing and daunting. For sure, when I'm writing a paper I legit have a thesaursus open so that it 'sounds' smarter lmao.
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Me too! I feel like it was just something the first, pretentious dude did when he wrote an article, and then everyone else just followed suit.
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I feel it's because to publish a paper we have to meet the reading standards placed by the journal and reviewers. In doing this however i can see how it does create an entry barrier to understand the paper and thus the science.
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But why and when did those become standards?
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