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>but just to be able to share the language.

This is a major pet peeve. We are very bad at teaching computer programming without using jargon--we don't even notice it.

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This is true in the Army, too. I'm at a fairly technical school for Army Signal Officers right now and it's compounded even further. To top it off, I'm a sponsor for a Saudi Arabian student. All too often he'll get a ton of undefined acronyms thrown at him that he's never heard before. I have to imagine he feels a lot like a biz dev guy or gal working at their first startup (if not worse).

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