In defence of jargon: people attack jargon, but no field could survive without it. If specialists did not contract and organise multiple terms under a single new term their publications would be twice as long and their conversations unwieldy.
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The real sin is to use jargon in the wrong place, e.g. for an economist to talk in jargon to a journalist to impress or bamboozle him.
12:27 AM - 13 Jun 2018
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