Timeline for Technical terminology for a non-technical audience
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| Nov 8, 2012 at 3:30 | comment | added | user21497 | Yes, adult readers can handle abbreviations & acronyms, but tech writing contains so many that creating another just adds to the confusing alphabet soup. I've been doing biomed editing for 15 years & learned more tech abbrevs & acronyms than I want to know. I still hate them & can't remember them all. Non-technical people hate them more than I do. You're a geek, so you don't grok this point. BSOD & other error messages that say nothing intelligible to non-geeks beyond "Unexpected error: Shutting down & deleting your work. Bye!" are as friendly as the Linux command line. Clarity vs. brevity. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 23:55 | history | answered | Reactgular | CC BY-SA 3.0 |