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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Sep 2019
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    Gray term of art. A term of art that you might mistake for an ordinary usage if you didn’t know it meant something special because it doesn’t sound jargony. Like “very online” (which you’d capitalize as Very Online if you wanted to mitigate grayness) What are other examples?

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      1. Zach Rose‏ @djairportpanini 10 Sep 2019
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        Topping out

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      1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 11 Sep 2019
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        Software industry had to make up names for everything it did, and wasn't always imaginative: Ticket Commit Server (grey against itself, having multiple contradictory meanings) Client Switch Object Class Factory Stack Array Pipeline Queue Address Path

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      1. voodoo rain‏ @parlance_common 10 Sep 2019
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        “Begging the question” seems to be more and more common in speech, with likely few aware that it has a technical meaning in philosophy

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        "Insight" has a very specific meaning in mental health (schizophrenia, especially). It means patient accepting they have an illness that needs treatment (as opposed to a family+doctor conspiracy to drug them for nefarious purposes)

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        Post-Internet comes to mind,

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        'Institutions,' used in an economic sense, might qualify.

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        Seems like a lot of current office jargon would fit this description, yeah? Many terms that had strict meanings in law or military trickled down to civilian world presumably cuz they sounded sophisticated and distinctive. Eg “Actionable”

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