Re:The pitfalls of jargon and the damage it does to mathematics
by to3m on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @05:37PM
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Jargon is just a time-saving and precision measure. Try doing without it sometime - it's painful.
It is totally unavoidable as long as people keep communicating with words. The better solution is not to complain about it, but to ask for definitions (recursively) - and then you can reap the time-saving and precision benefits of the terminology, too.
It is totally unavoidable as long as people keep communicating with words. The better solution is not to complain about it, but to ask for definitions (recursively) - and then you can reap the time-saving and precision benefits of the terminology, too.