Timeline for Is technical copywriting jargon or style?
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| Feb 20, 2011 at 8:35 | comment | added | psmears | @vgv8: as I've commented to you elsewhere, copywriting and writing are not synonyms. Feel free to look them up in a dictionary if you don't believe me, but copywriting is the work of a copywriter and refers to writing for advertising or publicity. If you could please distinguish which one you are referring to (writing in general => writing; just advertising => copywriting), and use the term consistently, you are much likelier to get a useful response :) | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 6:29 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | Ahh, I see, my question again was distorted. I rolled-back it to my own question | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 6:25 | comment | added | Gennady Vanin Геннадий Ванин | @Mikaveli, +1, but I found you did not understand that I asked about Technical Copywriting as it is clearly and immediately put in the title (using writing as synonym to copywriting). So, your "non-technical equivilent" is my technical copywriting example and sense of its use | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 12:50 | comment | added | Michael | I made no judgement as to whether or not jargon was perjorative. Only that overly technical terms that are not in general use outside a given profession could often be expressed in plain English. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 18:19 | comment | added | horatio | Your consistent disregard for the context of such terms suggests willful ignorance. "Jargon" is pejorative in the same way "fancy" or "elite" is pejorative: through context. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 17:26 | comment | added | Michael | @horatio: Perhaps they aren't the best examples, but there are plenty of terms that could easily be replaced with plain English. Intravenous anyone? | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 16:32 | comment | added | horatio | @shreevatsaR: I agree. And regarding doctor's jargon: the terms you quote are decidedly NOT unnecessary unless the doctor is speaking to the grandmother of the victim. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | BTW, no one on this website has said "incorrect English words"; it's all vgv8's own persistently erroneous interpretation of "jargon" despite many people telling him otherwise. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 15:31 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 2.5 |