Rick Hills distinguishes technical abbreviations, which are helpful and often necessary, from shibboleths, which are designed to be unhelpful. Technical abbreviations function to express complex information efficiently by speeding communication. Shibboleths function to keep outsiders away by making communication difficult.
Two Kinds of Technical Vocabulary
June 9, 2008 by philo
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