- Engineering and science have a practice of using a certain amount of pompous jargon—words and phrases that do nothing to enhance the writing, but (in the writer's mind, at least) enhance the image of the writer as clever and erudite. (For example, word forms like finalize and finalization are simply wrong.) A lot of formal writing has carried this kind of thing to extremes. It's the sort of stuffiness that obfuscates the meaning. (How's that for pomposity?)
Here are a few more examples of these kind of words and phrases:
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Don't say this… |
When you mean this… |
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detrimental |
Harmful |
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in close proximity |
Near |
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at the present time |
Now |
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the manner in which |
How |
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maximum quantity |
Most |
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termination |
End |
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Parameters |
Factors, boundaries, guidelines, variables, species, edge, limits |
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