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            <h2>In English, Please</h2>
            <h4>technoboy10 &middot; Saturday, December 20, 2014
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            <p>  Coders and math geeks are often accused of “not talking in English”. We say things like</p>
<p>“In electronic codebook mode, we can forge request headers and iteratively discover the first byte of the next block in linear time”,</p>
<p>which clearly makes no effort to be understandable. But is this really only a problem with CS and math?</p>
<p>  Gamers, for example, use their own version of English all the time.</p>
<p>“I’ll use my Sneak skill on the Splintertusk, and finish it off with Cunning Attack!”</p>
<p>So do musicians, writers, psychologists, dancers, even English majors (non-coordinate canonical clauses, anyone?).</p>
<p>  The thing is, nobody really speaks English. Everyone has their own unique dialect with esoteric vocabulary, complicated syntax, or any other kind of additions to vanilla English.</p>
<p>  And I think that’s part of what makes English interesting.</p>
<p>(thanks to hardmath123 and my sister for the quotes)</p>

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