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An 80s book making fun of tech jargon: "Tech speak, or how to talk high tech", Free at Internet Archive archive.org

Published: Jan. 1, 1986

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• satire
• technology

via epilys 2 years, 8 months ago | archived | plain text cache | source | 2 comments

epilys wrote :

For example, calls pens "inscriptive technologies" and an office desk "hardcopy multitask window array"

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  badtuple2 years, 8 months ago | link | reply | source

  Ok, so this is totally satire...but I can actually see where it might be useful. By giving absurd examples of how one might describe a chalkboard (a Calcium Trace Display System, or CTDS for short) the reader is forced to think backward on how they could have come up with that. I bet after reading this book you get really good at understanding other people's BS on the fly.

  A domain specific joke pamphlet should be given to everyone who joins any large company with tons of warnings on why it's an example of what not to do.

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    epilys2 years, 8 months ago | link | reply | source

    Very true. There was a recent submission about this in academia. The author advocated for simpler language: https://sic.pm/s/53/on-academic-writing-a-personal-note-2016/