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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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THIS.
What gets derided as jargon is, in at least some contexts, a perfectly reasonable term that is perfectly comprehensible within that context.

EDIT: Hell, I even think that the word "problematise" is not always toxic.
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:39, 1 reply)
Indeed
I was reading an article recently on the probabilistic determination of physical constants in pocket universes within the multiverse.

Now, to a non-physicist, that very probably appears as pretentious jargon. But it's perfectly acceptable within the field of theoretical cosmology, and anyway, such subjects can't really be dumbed down such that the average man in the street can understand them.

Likewise, in my work I come across biomedical papers, the titles of which mean nothing to me. I don't understand half of the words. But to a microbiologist, for example, it's clear as crystal.
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:49, closed)

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