Now you're talking my language

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Source: © Marie-Helene Jeeves

Disciplines all have their own unique terminology: how can we make ourselves understood?

Countless meetings with biologists, physicists, programmers and clinicians have taught me that the difficulty of communicating accurately across disciplines is two-fold. First, there is sometimes a need to recall stuff long since forgotten. Second, we all have our specialist vocabularies.