“But, you may ask, do we not sometimes need technical terms? Of course we do, but ‘technical’ does not necessarily mean difficult, and certianly it does not mean jargon. If such technical terms are really necessary and also clear and precise, it is not difficult to use them in a context of plain English and thus introduce them meaningfully to the reader.”

“On Intellectual Craftsmanship,” C. Wright Mills p. 219

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