• MoonManKipper@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you properly understand something you should be able to explain it precisely to a lay person using straightforward language. Depending on the level of detail, it may take awhile, but nothing need be lost. Jargon is a useful shorthand to accelerate communication between experts, all to often employed to buttress the position of the insecure or gatekeepers

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      1 day ago

      There are topics which just can’t be explained without prerequisites. Maybe you can get across the gist or a flavour if it, but not the core ideas in a sufficient level of detail to distinguish your area of research to that of a colleague working on something similar.

      Those prerequisites then mean that “it may take a while” in practice means “it may take several lecture courses”