#Jargon

Alope Ruby Aspendale

If anyone does care to know, I am not racist. Call me a fool, yes, but not a racist. If you wanna know why I commented on Woot's post with

Em

Mental health professional jargon translator:“She might be suicidal but she has capacity” = I don’t have skills to help, and I don’t understand capacity“Family/carer is over-involved” = someone actually cares

Christopher Peters 😷

I used to think jargon was gatekeeping, and sometimes I'm sure it is. However, today I understand thought depends on language.So asking an expert to not use jargon is ~

Excited to share part two of our #jargon study! Here, we find that jargon in science messages affects individuals' perceptions of themselves - making them feel like they aren't "science

software engineering jargon is truly the dumbest jargon every other stem field gets cool greek & latin terminology but every day i have to be like "now catfish sends a

Carl T. Bergstrom

1. A thread on jargon and whether it impacts the citation rates of papers that use it, based on a paper by @UllAmartinez and @stefanomammola1https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2581 2. My first painful brush

Yes. And/But, (to offer an unsolicited, unpopular opinion on the cultural politics of jargon): I find that "academic jargon" is often easier for English Second Language speakers because it doesn't

Irina Dumitrescu

I am tired of academic writers who don't care about their readers. I am tired of academic writers who assume that something that seems obvious and clear to them is

Known Heretic: Amy E. Sousa #IStandWithJKR

URGENT: STOP all participation in gender jargon! The safety of women & children depends on our ability to rely on our instincts & accurately identify sex quickly. Gender jargon creates

DP'd by Moderna

You're making a LOT of projections.We're on a platform that *facilitates* general consumption, but we primarily consume what we want. This is why I seldom have white supremacist/hotep shit on

Dr Douglass Rovinsky

Dear palaeoanthropologists/archaeologists: Please stop using the word "primitive". You might think you're doing well by avoiding jargon. But here's the deal: while you & your peers might understand that you're

Finn Gardiner • is masked up

I seriously think a lot of lefty activism doesn’t get the traction it deserves because so many folks keep using jargon people find obtuse or inaccessible. For example, the phrase

i've recently become obsessed with all the insane corporate ways we say normal things to each other."I’m a little confused" is by far my favorite - it's absolute rage masked

Corey, Malazan Book of the Fallen Fan

So...writing thread time. People talk about not dumbing down their writing. "It's a stupid rule," they say "and I don't write for fourth-graders." But, the rule to simplify your writing

Stealthy Wealth

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Some 1-Page personal finance cheat sheets1. How to achieve financial freedom2. Asset Classes3. ETFs4. TFSAs5. Investing jargon buster6. IDEAS to get your finances in order7. How Tax works8. RAs vs

Molly Crabapple🇵🇷

I'm trying to think of why I hate social justice vocabulary so deeply, when I often agree with the concepts it expresses, and I think its just the sameness of