they whom i call Stan Halpin wrote:
Related to the ongoing thread about what is a professional...
One characteristic of many professions is the development of a
specialized language. This facilitates communication among members of
the profession and serves to exclude outsiders.
An example I just received:
"A directed graph (or equivalently its adjacency matrix A)
defines a symbolic dynamical system S_A, a shift of finite
type (SFT). In dynamics one naturally tries to categorize dynamical
invariants of SFTs (and related symbolic systems) in terms of
understandable matrix invariants of the nonnegative matrices
presenting them, and some theorem about which of those matrix
invariants can actually arise in the nonnegative case. Among some
successes,
there are difficult open problems."
i don't think this relates well to photography; for one thing
academics tend to have far more specialized language than
professionals in general
the geeks in photography have things to say about optics,
information theory and sensor technology, but on the whole
photography is much more concrete, so while the terminology may
still "serve to exclude", it is far less abstruse than the
mathematics/computer science example above
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