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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