Saturday, January 29, 2005

Discourse - Words the Dodger must Search for on the Internet

BrooklynDodger observes that scientific and medical discourse is conducted with vocabulary the rest of the community is not supposed to understand. For doctors, being able to converse in front of a patient without the patient knowing what they are talking about is a side benefit of the vocabulary.

The Dodger has been trying to lace his technical discussions with vocabulary from philosophy or literary criticism, in addition to the more usual profanities. Others may wish to help the Dodger collect more than the paltry list below; frequently the Dodger has to use google even to get the spelling, much less a definition.

Deracinated (14,000 google hits)
Semiotics (625,000)
Hermeneutics (525,000 google hits, once google corrected the Dodger's spelling)

The Dodger left out Deconstruction (966,000 hits) because the Dodger thinks it's too complicated to understand.


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