Timeline for Is technical copywriting jargon or style?
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| Feb 19, 2011 at 11:43 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | @Stan Rogers, once more, enormous thanks and please see my answer to your comment to answer to this question | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 9:54 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | @Stan Rogers, thanks a lot. You touched the point I wanted to ask a lot time ago but I did not know how because all these questions (about "append", "prepend") are being closed as dupes. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 16:15 | comment | added | bye | The definition of jargon does not imply the nobody can understand it, but that it is language that cannot be easily understood by people outside of the group. Jargon terms are usually the most clear, precise and succinct language you can use to talk to people within the group, but to an outsider it is usually baffling. In the case of prepend, we have created an artificial term that is meaningless outside of the "in group", since to append means merely to add -- it does not have a positional implication; it can be prepositional or postpositional. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | fortunate1 | Sorry, vg -a bad joke on my part. By coincidence, I received a junk e-mail from China yesterday promising me millions of dollars if I'd only advance the sender some money and share my personal banking information with him, too. It's an old scam [and obsolete, I thought] usually associated with Nigeria -hence my reference to naira. I believed Robusto's answer was so useful and exhaustive that I chose to compliment him in that off-handed way, ironically. | |
| Feb 15, 2011 at 16:25 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | @fortunate1, I could not understand why/how have you paid to join this site? | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 18:21 | comment | added | fortunate1 | @robusto: Your post alone makes the 154k naira I spent to join this site worthwhile. | |
| Feb 13, 2011 at 3:45 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | +1, thanks. "which can at least be understood, jargon is nearly impossible for the average person to decipher". So, prepend is not understandable? What the heck, for whom am I writing? I thought that the more succinct, the more clear? I always suspected that I am write-only | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 14:25 | history | answered | Robusto | CC BY-SA 2.5 |