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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago

If you're communicating with another scientist about the actual work you're doing then sure there are times when you need to be specific.

If you're publishing official documentation on something or writing contracts, then yes, you also need to be extremely speciific.

But if you're just providing a description of your work to a non-specialist then no, there's always a way of simplifying it for the appropriate context. Same thing goes for most of specialist to specialist communication. There are specific sentences and times you use the precision to distinguish between two different things, but if you insist on always speaking in maximum precision and accuracy then it is simply poor communication skills where you are over providing unnecessary detail that detracts from the actual point you're trying to convey.