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It's all jargon

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Nov 19, 2020
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If Jack Dorsey and the other co-founders of Twitter had been more etymologically minded in 2006 (there's some evidence that some of them have since improved), then instead of Twitter we might have had 'Jargon'.

Only the coolest and least angry birds know that the origin of the word 'jargon' has to do with the language of birds, the twittering that goes o…

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