At 3:31 AM +0000 9/23/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:15:54 -0700
>From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Nope, It missed it by few hundred miles (aliasing)
>
>Joe Gwinn wrote:
>
> >I think Moose meant by "oscillates between light and dark" the spatial
> >frequency, measured in cycles per millimeter on the film surface.
> >
>Of course that's what he means. He just sometimes thinks that using
>alternate descriptions of jargony words and phrases may make it easier
>for some people to hear the intended content. Jargon (scientific
>vocabulary, in this case) tends to increase the simplicity and accuracy
>of communications between an audience with a size that decreases with
>increases in the jargon density. I was trying to increase the audience
>size.
I agree that jargon limits the audience, but given the interest this audience
has in the issue, my approach has been to teach people the relevant parts of
the standard scientific nomenclature, and underlying theory.
This has great advantages: First, they can better follow the discussions
outside of this reflector. Second, they can google on the terms and will be
led to the relevant literature, which they will be better able to read. Third,
and by no means least, they will be better able to tell sense from nonsense.
There is lots of nonsense floating around on the Internet, so this can matter a
lot. Not to mention being able to see through the marketing bafflegab we are
all beseiged with.
Joe Gwinn
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