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e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community

n software

real estate agent

It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.

: nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.

nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined

repudiating ambiguity and complexity.

priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.

t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.

instrument of manipulation,