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Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 06:05:19 -0500 |
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Celso Lago-Paiva wrote:
> I believe that any technical report must be written
>in technical language, because communication among
>researchers need to be on a higher, technical, concise
>level, in order to economize words.
I see no benefit to be gained from making technical writing opaque to the
non-technical reader.
In my experience, reports filled with jargon and tech-speak are more
verbose, less precise, and anything but concise. I return to my original
advocacy of simple declarative sentences and simple vocabulary.
There is a vast difference between precision and pomposity. "Lithic
implements" is neither more precise nor more "technical" than "stone
tools."
Such pompous affectations do nothing but make the author look silly.
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