Re: RW on Working-Storage (was: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:19:11 -0600, Robert <no@e.mail> wrote:

>Thanks for the kind offer, but I decline. If I were writing a standard, I'd
 strive for
>plain English and try to avoid talking like a lawyer or a programmer.
>
>Last w I wrote a Business Requirement document that deliberately avoided
 industry
>jargon. I wrote it in such plain language that anyone could understand it. 
My colleagues
>thought it unprofessional. One of them rewrote it in dense techie-speak.
>
>I find it  that clear writing is considered unprofessional.

I sympathize with your view.   But sometimes jargon is the only way
that some things can be stated unambiguously.    What we talk in
normal life is notoriously subject to interpretation and mistakes.