When I see colloquialisms used in technical discussions I generally assume that the author is attempting to convey the topic of conversation in a more casual and approachable way so as to maximize the amount of of people who read and think about what is being said. You may not be aware of this but pretentiousness does turn a lot of people off. This stops said people from inquiring further about things they may actually discover they care about. The downside of all this pretentiousness is that the world is as a whole less educated because the people who possess the knowledge and know-how refuse to accommodate their audiences with simple word changes such as this.
There's nothing pretentious about the word "failure."
I do not believe the people who plod through a huge multi-page, multi-code-sample question at StackOverflow are just casual dabblers who are likely to leap away from the discussion when they discover the top-rated answer features the word "failure."
I suspect that you also believe that you are not being pretentious and pedantic by raising this point. I emphatically disagree. The latter half of the criticism raised in my comment was directed towards your initial comment and comments or explanations like yours that are prevalent in advanced fields. I apologize for not being clear.
I'm sorry, but I got turned off from reading the rest of your comment when I got to "emphatically." Maybe you should change it to "like totally." To accommodate me.
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When I see colloquialisms used in technical discussions I generally assume that the author is attempting to convey the topic of conversation in a more casual and approachable way so as to maximize the amount of of people who read and think about what is being said. You may not be aware of this but pretentiousness does turn a lot of people off. This stops said people from inquiring further about things they may actually discover they care about. The downside of all this pretentiousness is that the world is as a whole less educated because the people who possess the knowledge and know-how refuse to accommodate their audiences with simple word changes such as this.
There's nothing pretentious about the word "failure."
I do not believe the people who plod through a huge multi-page, multi-code-sample question at StackOverflow are just casual dabblers who are likely to leap away from the discussion when they discover the top-rated answer features the word "failure."
I suspect that you also believe that you are not being pretentious and pedantic by raising this point. I emphatically disagree. The latter half of the criticism raised in my comment was directed towards your initial comment and comments or explanations like yours that are prevalent in advanced fields. I apologize for not being clear.
I'm sorry, but I got turned off from reading the rest of your comment when I got to "emphatically." Maybe you should change it to "like totally." To accommodate me.
like totally noted, dude! :)