Language Within the Field

I think anyone can relate to this topic. Within everyone's classes and professions they are in, they all have their own certain language they use. Slang and certain ways of saying technical jargon is the language associated with certain aspects of careers. I know within my own Landscape Architecture studio we have some ways of saying things. One thing that sticks out in my mind is that we say LA instead of Landscape Architecture. That may be like a "duh, of course that's what you would call it." But I always have to explain to people what it is. Other professions, like my roommate's, like photography. He says so many things and I have no idea what he is saying, so he has to explain it. Jargon has made it easier for the people within that subculture but harder for those outside of it.