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Re:Classism in America by rwjwjuwjudf on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:52PM (#11443372)
People also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it's poetry, but those people are the exception.
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Re:Classism in America by 13of40 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:27AM (#11444714)
It's interesting to watch how, in a big tech project, a director or architect will occasionally start using a word like "corpus", "idempotent", "assert", etc. and it will trickle down the layers of the team. By the time the keypunch guy is using it, it's gone out of fashion, like last year's suit.
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Re:Classism in America by wizardforhire on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:41AM (#11445704)
Knowing this, it's fun to purposely mispronounce words to see if it will catch on...
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Re:Classism in America by facetube on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:09AM (#11445846)
Go all the way IMO: make up the words and see if they catch on.
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Re:Classism in America by WalterBright on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:59PM (#11443421)
Technobabble is a prime example of that. (Star Trek TNG is a hilarious example of pseudo-science jibber jabber.)
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Re:Classism in America by wizardforhire on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:41AM (#11445709)
Tech the tech!
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