How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by gaur on Sunday August 14, 2016 @09:01PM (#12288030)

> I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English.

Did you notice that a fluent English speaker had to ask what "p.a." meant? Do you think that would have happened if it had been written "per year" instead?

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by adenadel on Sunday August 14, 2016 @09:39PM (#12288148)

The same could be argued for any jargon outside of one's own field.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by Tomte on Monday August 15, 2016 @12:20AM (#12288611)

As a counterpoint: I'm not a native English speaker, I do understand "yr" just fine, but it takes me a split second longer to read that abbreviation.

Because p.a. is also part of my language.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by edoceo on Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:14PM (#12288409)

How could one tell the OP was fluent?

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