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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8653692" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Consider for a moment the problem of communication in the following scenario.&nbsp; If you have jargon using certain words and I have jargon using those same words/phrases significantly differently.&nbsp; Must I accept your jargon?&nbsp; Must you accept mine?&nbsp; Whose jargon prevails here?The criteria for the whole community agreeing on and using jargon in a particular way is the criteria that prevents such a degenerate state from occurring.&nbsp; Calling the mechanism for preventing degenerate communication states from occurring 'gate keeping' isn't just a criticism of just people on this forum, it's a criticism of language and communication as a whole and an unfounded one at that.&nbsp; Without 'gate keeping' as you call it we would never be able to communicate as any given individual could use whatever word or phrase to mean whatever he wanted and it would have to be given equal position in the community no matter how much everyone else had already agreed to use the word/phrase differently.&nbsp; We would all be talking and using the words and no one would know the meaning as words/phrases that aren't accepted in their use have no meaning to the community.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8653692, member: 6795602"] Consider for a moment the problem of communication in the following scenario. If you have jargon using certain words and I have jargon using those same words/phrases significantly differently. Must I accept your jargon? Must you accept mine? Whose jargon prevails here? The criteria for the whole community agreeing on and using jargon in a particular way is the criteria that prevents such a degenerate state from occurring. Calling the mechanism for preventing degenerate communication states from occurring 'gate keeping' isn't just a criticism of just people on this forum, it's a criticism of language and communication as a whole and an unfounded one at that. Without 'gate keeping' as you call it we would never be able to communicate as any given individual could use whatever word or phrase to mean whatever he wanted and it would have to be given equal position in the community no matter how much everyone else had already agreed to use the word/phrase differently. We would all be talking and using the words and no one would know the meaning as words/phrases that aren't accepted in their use have no meaning to the community. [/QUOTE]

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