RE: Re: dialect/jargon

From: Mike Holmes <mike_c_holmes_at_...>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:34:36 -0600

>From: donald_at_...
>
> >Or maybe not, just a theory. Maybe having it at high level might actually
> >make it easier to understand.
>
>I think it just gets more specialised at higher levels. An Etyries
>merchant can explain double entry bookkeeping in Tradetalk. The
>average speaker would go "Uhhh, why would I want to know that?"

Er, that's more or less what I was saying. Wasn't it? That at high levels it becomes potentially exclusionary jargon...

Mike

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