Comment Re:Does the language matter? (Score 1) 532
I have to live around people that have no use (or perhaps can't be bothered to care) for words like quark, dromedary, chiroptera, circumlocute, etcetera.
Wouldn't you consider chiroptera, quark, and dromedary as falling into the fairly specific jargon category? I've got a great vocabularly, but I don't even know what a chiroptera is. I assume it has wings, and probably something like hands? I guess its a bird or bat or something, but I can't imagine using it anytime soon, except in Scrabble.
I agree with your point though. I get frustrated when people don't know the difference between "there" and "their". "were" and "where", and "verses" and "versus". I get emails all the time, and I can't even look at them because of people using "there" when meaning "their".
Wouldn't you consider chiroptera, quark, and dromedary as falling into the fairly specific jargon category? I've got a great vocabularly, but I don't even know what a chiroptera is. I assume it has wings, and probably something like hands? I guess its a bird or bat or something, but I can't imagine using it anytime soon, except in Scrabble.
I agree with your point though. I get frustrated when people don't know the difference between "there" and "their". "were" and "where", and "verses" and "versus". I get emails all the time, and I can't even look at them because of people using "there" when meaning "their".
