RE: Jargon

Subject: RE: Jargon
From: "Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:04:52 -0400

It's jargon if it blocks information needed by intended readers.

It's technical terminology if the writer has been kind enough to include a glossary.

"Jargon" can be completely appropriate for an audience of professionals in a particular field.

Once again it comes back to "Know Thy Audience".

Dori Green
who would not waste space on definitions of "pannier", "cross-buck saddle", "cud",
"hardware disease", "three-legged triple gainer off the cliff fully loaded", or
"dazer" in an article for Goatpacker Magazine.
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