A word about jargon

[tahnan]

Jon Carroll of the SF Chronicle has a good column today--no surprise, he nearly always does. It's about enthusiasts, people who have particular strong interests in, well, stuff. It's full of neat observations, but I especially liked this one, which I suspect jadelennox will also appreciate.

I hate business prose; it's written by people retreating into jargon to obfuscate the situation because they don't actually understand the situation. Enthusiast prose is written by people advancing into jargon to clarify the situation because they do actually understand the situation.