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The problem I am pointing to, however, is […] a simple problem that afflicts us all: people with any kind of technical knowledge of a domain tend to get hopelessly (and unwittingly) stuck in a frame of reference that relates to their view of the issue, and their trade’s technical parlance, not that of the ordinary humans with whom they so signally fail to engage.
— Language Log’s Geoffrey Pullum on a phenomenon he calls “nerdview.” (via nostrich)