• frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    6 days ago

    I call it “reading with my eyes but not my brain”, but I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t think you need to turn every god damned niche thing into a new word or initialism just to gatekeep against those who didn’t know the new word just made up.

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          Because it’s easier to refer to something with a single word or abbreviation than to have to explain the entire concept?

          It’s more slang than jargon either way.

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            Slang is informal language, jargon is a specialized term. This post is asking for jargon. Slang is designed to keep people out of a social in-group, jargon is designed to keep people out of an intellectual in-group.