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The Translator: Same Words, Different Reader

No word is jargon on its own — jargon is insider vocabulary used on an outsider, so the definition is relational, not lexical. Click each flagged term and decide: keep it, keep it and define it once, or replace it. Then change the reader at the top and watch which of your decisions stop being right.

1 · Who is reading this?

2 · Click a flagged term

undecided right for this reader wrong for this reader
The one-question test: can I replace this word without losing precision? If yes, it was jargon and it goes. If no, it is a term of art — it stays, and it gets glossed once in ordinary words the first time it appears.

The document this reader receives

Right for this reader
0/9
Barriers left
0
Precision lost
0