{"id":2644,"date":"2018-11-05T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2018-11-18T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:35:00","slug":"the-word-of-week-is-jargon-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-week-is-jargon-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of week is <i>jargon workshop<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m inspired by the idea of a jargon workshop. I heard this term for the first time\u00a0while watching recordings from the &#8220;I understand&#8221; seminar held last spring. Of particular interest was the presentation\u00a0by <em>Mirva Kipinoinen<\/em>, who spoke about a revision of the\u00a0<em>Tukes<\/em>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>The jargon workshop was one approach taken to redo<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the site&#8217;s language. During the workshop, experts collected difficult expressions and developed alternatives for them. They went so far as to blacklist certain terms and suggest other\u00a0expressions\u00a0for authors to use.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the workshop method because it is so concrete and and because it requires looking at the texts in detail. General rules by themselves<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>do not improve readability. Discussions in workshops like this encourage experts to read and evaluate their own written work in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>In the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Tukes plain language project I found another sound principle:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>don&#8217;t simply reuse legal language on the website. What Tukes does is to give guidance in plain language and provide links to the related regulations and laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m inspired by the idea of a jargon workshop. I heard this term for the first time\u00a0while watching recordings from the &#8220;I understand&#8221; seminar held last spring. Of particular interest was the presentation\u00a0by Mirva Kipinoinen, who spoke about a revision of the\u00a0Tukes\u00a0website. The jargon workshop was one approach taken to redo\u00a0the site&#8217;s language. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}