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Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 198

[_] Confirmed ADHD, with needs
[_] "Diagnosing" ADHD

I see you quietly snuck the conversation from one to the other, where no one is allowed to say anything contrary.

Bluntly, you should STFU. You're precluding the subject on injected pretenses, and you're helping people confirm their incorrect beliefs.

Comment Re:Put it on a shirt (Score 1) 105

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Comment Re:There are useless jargons and useful jargons (Score 1) 147

Practical terms will be made up to refer to a specific subset of something that a layman doesn't care about (niche nerd crap) but is relevant in the field and benefits from shorthand.

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1095/

The best jargon is intuitively understood (no one should need "paint yourself into a corner" explained) most can be spotted with context (esp by someone competent, yes) but a few are obtuse enough that you can't really expect people to immediately grok it.

That extra word being key, since today you're one click away from looking it up or asking the LLMs. If it's so obscure it doesn't exist, it's probably something in-house and some mix of unimportant, convenient, frequent, or obvious. Or obviously weird, and people immediately call it out.

"Oh, yeah, that's what we call the DX3's, they never last more than two weeks and look funny so we started calling them milk cartons."

I'll assume TFA is more about vocabulary/buzzword theatrics, humans have always been obsessed with posturing (sometimes with good reason) but the behavior spiked after the true eternal september drew everyone in with mobile/social. Sure, festizios "hurt morale and collaboration". Not sure about calling them jargon.

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