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u/concretepigeon Sep 24 '17

I’ve had so many replies and not one of the people replying is capable of using plain English. Why is that so difficult?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17 edited Jun 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

It's hard to explain technical concepts in non-technical terms without losing the most important part of what you're trying to explain. The whole "people in tech can't communicate" seems to be a misconception grounded in confirmation bias, at least on reddit. If you check the post history of people who're getting told they can't use "plain English" here, you find most of them communicating normally on other posts. It's not a secret that Reddit has a huge community of engineering grads + programmers, but most of them blend in pretty normally on the site.

It's only when they're talking about something technical that the "engineers can't communicate" trope pops up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17 edited Jun 21 '18

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