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Afternoons in the Tower of Babel
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2023Oncologists and families of ICU patients lack common language when discussing status and prognosis. Harmful jargon abounds.
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Computing in Science & Engineering, 2009
The author discusses his theory on the reason behind the existence of many programming languages. He discusses that this has to do witha "religious" character that has beleaguered the computer-using community almost from its beginning. A classic case of religious warfare is the Mac/PC struggle, which seized the entire community and has raged for years,
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The author discusses his theory on the reason behind the existence of many programming languages. He discusses that this has to do witha "religious" character that has beleaguered the computer-using community almost from its beginning. A classic case of religious warfare is the Mac/PC struggle, which seized the entire community and has raged for years,
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1962
I am well aware that my skirmishes with those who write appalling English can hardly hope to be more than delaying actions, rear-guard gestures made while we retreat, regroup, and fall back again before the melancholy lava flow of fearful writing.
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I am well aware that my skirmishes with those who write appalling English can hardly hope to be more than delaying actions, rear-guard gestures made while we retreat, regroup, and fall back again before the melancholy lava flow of fearful writing.
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Perseveration or the Tower of Babel
Seminars in Speech and Language, 2004The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to present a study of perseveration in a continuous series of 50 left brain-damaged aphasic subjects and (2) to describe the treatment of 2 patients with high rates of perseveration. In the group of 50 subjects, 20 showed two or more perseverations in one or more language tasks.
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1963
The one-eyed man is king in the country of the blind; but who is king where all are blind? In writing we must use symbols which transmit or obscure meaning. Likewise the use of abbreviations exercises a kind of shorthand which aims at conserving time, space, and energy. Abbreviations may confuse or clarify.
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The one-eyed man is king in the country of the blind; but who is king where all are blind? In writing we must use symbols which transmit or obscure meaning. Likewise the use of abbreviations exercises a kind of shorthand which aims at conserving time, space, and energy. Abbreviations may confuse or clarify.
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