A How to Create Jargon Tutorial
January 21, 2016
I read “Controversial Concepts: How to Tackle Defining and Naming Them.” The write up explains how to whip up jargon and get it into circulation. I thought, “Just what I need. I want to make ideas more confusing and more difficult to discuss. Hooray.”
Here’s the method:
- Name controversial concepts with proxy names such as “Greg”, “Mike” or “John” (or whatever name you prefer) to get potentially misleading names and their implicit connotations out of the way of progress.
- Draw a concept diagram showing those concepts as well as important semantic relationships among them.
- Formulate intensional definitions for each concept – still using the proxy names. Ensure that those definitions are consistent with the relationships shown on the concept diagram.
- Identify one or more communities that “baptize” those concepts by giving them better names.
Not as clear as Lotus 1-2-3 because the “intensiional definitions” threw me. After a bit of thinking, I realized that I could create really useful, clear, high impact words and phrases like:
- artificial intelligence
- Big Data
- cognitive computing
- concept search
- data lake
- metadata
- natural language
That is outstanding.
Stephen E Arnold, January 21, 2016
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