{"id":4202,"date":"2024-08-29T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2024-08-17T07:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T12:18:52","slug":"popular-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/08\/popular-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is easy to use vocabulary that is popular at this moment. It is a bit more difficult to explain the situation in plain English. That exercise, however, is often well worth the effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is some popular vocabulary in the endeavor of software development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DevSecOps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kubernetes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Git<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aggregation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anonymization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s nice to toss out one or two of these per sentence. It&#8217;s a shorthand. Say one word that is short of 1,000 more words. All good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there is, &#8220;Please explain what you mean when you use that word.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gosh, what are you, stupid? Don&#8217;t you recognize the currently popular vocabulary currently used by the currently recognized experts? Why if you were in the know, you would know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps I am a bit slow. Still, I would appreciate someone explaining all these things in plain words commonly found in the English dictionary. Sure, that is difficult, but it shows a fundamental understanding of what is happening, and a fundamental understanding is usually worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago, a much younger version of myself asked a person developing software if his group used Design Reviews. He wrinkled his brow at the question. We walked down the hallway to a room. &#8220;We all sit in here,&#8221; he started. &#8220;When we are about to work on something new, we stand at this white board. Someone draws a few figures with boxes and arrows. We talk about the figures and redraw them until we all seem to understand and agree that we have a pretty good notion of how things will work and how to build them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah. Plain English. They didn&#8217;t know the then-popular vocabulary, but they knew what they were doing. Yes, they succeeded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can all do better. Let&#8217;s skip the popular vocabulary and speak English. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is easy to use vocabulary that is popular at this moment. It is a bit more difficult to explain the situation in plain English. That exercise, however, is often well worth the effort. 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