Saturday, January 31, 2009

Follow-up

It seems the members of Techwr-L are a sensitive bunch. If *anyone* suggests that there is something wrong with *any* TWer, the razors come out. My comment below is just an observation. How can you criticize a group of people for one thing and then, while criticizing them, do it? It doesn't make sense, to me, and erases their credibility.

-----Original Message-----
From: Me

Anyone else notice the humor in using "aggrandizement" in a paragraph that criticizes writers that do not bother "to fish for a plain-English word"

-----Original Message-----
From: CL T

One paragraph from this is especially true.

FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE
Tech Terms to Avoid
"Why tech writers use so much jargon, I don't know. Maybe it's
self-aggrandizement; they want to lord their knowledge over everybody else.
Maybe it's laziness; they can't be bothered to fish for a plain-English
word. Maybe it's just habit; they spend all day talking shop with other
nerds, so they slip into technospeak when they write for larger audiences."

http://tinyurl.com/dhmaoe

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