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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 day ago (52 children)

quick rant

i'm so tired of over the top "intellectual" vocabulary in academia. a lot of concepts could be explained with simple words and would get the point across just as well, or better, and additionally make the conversation more accessible to those outside of a specific field. Why do you need to use big smart words to explain simple things? Is it because it tickles your ego when people need 10 minutes to comprehend one sentence? argh

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (8 children)

What kills me a little is when someone has to come up with some nebulous acronym that we're all supposed to know but no one ever defines it at the beginning of the document. In EEG we like to change the name of what are now known as lateralized periodic discharges. I have a document with about 25 different terms that all describe different terminology that's been used to describe that EEG finding.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Meanwhile I'm in here thinking, I wonder what EEG means?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

See how desensitized I am to that, electroencephalography. Electro- electronic, encephalo- head, graph- record, electronic head record, those wavy lines from the brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Reasonably obligatory xkcd?

https://xkcd.com/2501/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha, I was way off, the jargon made me think it was like Electrical EnGineering or something

It's funny how we just get used to the acronyms. Every industry has them, some of them even overlap

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

hehehe, CBT

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in psychology - Cognitve Behavioural Therapy. In bdsm - Cock and Ball Torture

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