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Comment by didroe

4 days ago

The problem is, what's ambiguous or precise is subjective. Your devil's advocate needs to reflect all of the possible readers, and that isn't possible.

There's a good reason we use jargon in professions, or more constrained and less ambiguous languages for maths/coding

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