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It's definitely a crappy word out of context, and the defensiveness is probably to be expected.

It's definitely a crappy word out of context, and the defensiveness is probably to be expected. Who are you calling aggressive!... On the other hand, it's routinely frustrating when especially technical communities, full to bursting with misappropriations of common terms, seem especially unable to see past the letters in a word to its meaning in context. Maybe we just intrinsically don't believe that other areas of inquiry could be so complex as to need their own jargon...

Posted by Cushman on May 6, 2015, 7:31 PM

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It's definitely a crappy word out of context, and the defensiveness is probably to be expected.

CushmanMay 6, 2015, 7:31 PM

It's definitely a crappy word out of context, and the defensiveness is probably to be expected. Who are you calling aggressive!... On the other hand, it's routinely frustrating when especially technical communities, full to bursting with misappropriations of common terms, seem especially unable to see past the letters in a word to its meaning in context. Maybe we just intrinsically don't believe that other areas of inquiry could be so complex as to need their own jargon...

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