#Jargon

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GamingBonsai

Michael and I had a really cool conversation about the barriers we’ve experienced while in STEM a bit ago. Technical language is a major one. Often times my courses are

Dhruv Bansal

dhruvbansal

1 Physicists have a word "crank": a person who doesn't know physics but persists in promulgating their personal theory. Cranks pop in all fields of physics but especially in certain

Daniel Bamidele 🇳🇬🇳🇬

officialbambam4

Emails, like traditional business letters, need to be clear and concise. Keep your sentences short and to the point. The body of the email should be direct and informative, and

Montaigne

Montaigne01

How to Be A Black Swan Man (or Woman) in 6 Easy StepsA Guide to Sophistry for the 21st Century1) Bring up “fat tails” at every opportunity, as in “That’s

Kate Cox

thekatecox

THREAD: Ironically, @SmithfieldFoods is the 2nd major meatpacker to use the power of advertising in the very same medium it accuses of "inaccurate" storytelling for our “info-tainment society” to reach

Babelos

Babelos

As a business owner who is looking to expand beyond international boundaries, if you are new to the world of translation and other language services, you will come across a

Joshua Clappers

joshuaclappers

To be summed up about trading and what in-particular you need to know:1) Markets move on data, hard data. Not so much patterns or candles.2) Working for 1-hour a day

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

There are a bunch of exaggerations and overstatements in this jeremiad against “wokese” but then core point is correct — the upshot of all this linguistic novelty is to further

MovieBob Productions

the_moviebob

I'm not sure if this reference even makes sense anymore as a point of reference, but #Greyhound being an AppleTV exclusive ends up being incredibly bizarre because it is 1000%

Michael Tracey

mtracey

Lol @ the people melting down over this tweet. “Environmental racism” is a meaningless term. If you want to contend that minorities are disproportionately harmed by poor environmental policy, use

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

A language that very nearly came into existence in medieval England was what I call 'Normanglish', a kind of Norman French with English orthography and English pronunciation. We could also

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

RuadhanIT

Three interesting things in the Supreme Court statement. (1) By sub-contracting the review to retired CJ Susan Denham, whose fair-mindedness nobody will question, the judges are applying one of the

kazuMAR

PrimeRoyalMar

This is my issue with CRT used in media. Champions of CRT claim it makes you a "critical thinker" but in reality it greatly narrows your view point. Once you

Too Weird To Sneer At

ben_r_hoffman

Lacanian "demande" misattributes existential confusion as object-level needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_(psychoanalysis)Adorno's "jargon" reifies object-level needs as the fundamental human condition: http

Dr. Anna Funk is at #SciWri20

DrAnnaFunk

Lots of people sharing their favorite interview questions in the #SciWriInterview #SciWri20 chat!"What inspired you to do this research?" - Ashley Peppriell(this is my favorite opener, too) "Is there any

Kuro

FoggyBunneh

Maintenant que je me suis bien énervé a répondre a un random twitto, je repense au fait qu'il est difficile de mettre des choses en place dans la commu sourde