{"items": [{"author": "David German", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/111229345142780712481", "anchor": "gp-1367775110968", "service": "gp", "text": "Even at work?", "timestamp": 1367775110}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1367776245768", "service": "gp", "text": "I like conversations where laying the groundwork for better future conversations is one of the goals.", "timestamp": 1367776245}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611902415532", "anchor": "fb-611902415532", "service": "fb", "text": "Larry Jennings was find of pointing out that you could replace a dozen or so terms which had specific meanings that nobody could quite remember *and* which didn't improve teaching or learning with 'twirl to swap.' Of course, he was right about this, and of course callers agreed in principle but continued to do what they'd always done.", "timestamp": "1367779806"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611903538282", "anchor": "fb-611903538282", "service": "fb", "text": "As others have said at length, know your audience. Otherwise you can waste time with both kinds of audience.", "timestamp": "1367780602"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611904097162", "anchor": "fb-611904097162", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff, to what extent do you do this when talking to coworkers about work? I'm taking an operating systems course and I don't think it would be possible for me and my partner to communicate without using a pretty serious amount of jargon.", "timestamp": "1367781106"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1367786042632", "service": "gp", "text": "@David German\n\u00a0\"Even at work?\"\n
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\nLess at work, but still some. \u00a0I try to avoid company-internal and PageSpeed terms.", "timestamp": 1367786042}, {"author": "Aaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611968423252", "anchor": "fb-611968423252", "service": "fb", "text": "Is this a result of thinking that it is relatively more important to make ideas clear to people outside your jargon group than it is to communicate more effectively within your jargon group? Or that spreading ideas you currently have is more valuable than acquiring new ideas from your jargon group?", "timestamp": "1367823840"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611979605842", "anchor": "fb-611979605842", "service": "fb", "text": "@Aaron: Some of both, but I also want to find out how much avoiding jargon interferes with talking within my jargon group. My guess is that, once I get used to this, talking within the jargon group will only be slightly less fluent. (And I can still understand it when other people use group-specific terms.)", "timestamp": "1367846367"}, {"author": "Aaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/611896771842?comment_id=611993373252", "anchor": "fb-611993373252", "service": "fb", "text": "Makes sense. If jargon isn't actually that useful for talking within jargon-group, then it's less useful.
I'd also be interested in available the concepts described by jargon terms feel after a while of not using them.", "timestamp": "1367855549"}]}