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the dialect where passive voice hides who did it and jargon proves you suffered for your data.
means a specialized register of precision, hedging, and nominalization built to make claims falsifiable, replicable, and emotionally neutral.
from emerged as latin gave way to vernacular science in the 1600s, when the royal society demanded a plain, verifiable style over rhetorical flourish, then ballooned back into jargon as fields specialized and needed shorthand for increasingly narrow ideas.
passive voicefavored to erase the researcher, not just sound formal
hedge wordssuggests, may, appears to dodge overclaiming
nominalizationturns verbs into nouns to sound more objective
royal society mottonullius in verba, take nobody's word for it
for instance
the reaction was observed — passive construction avoiding who actually watched it
latin binomial naming — linnaeus, 1735, gave every species a two-word latin tag
ibid and et al — citation shorthand compressing whole bibliographies into two words