Jargon Creates an Illusion of Communication

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The deepest danger of internal acronyms isn't confusion — it's false confidence. Using a term your audience already knows feels like communication even when ideas aren't actually transferring. Jargon also becomes a tribal marker: people adopt it to signal belonging rather than to convey meaning, which makes it actively load-bearing for identity and useless for information.

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