Jargon emerges organically.

· Bits and Bobs 9/29/25
  • Jargon emerges organically.
    • If someone uses a distinctive-enough phrase, and the listeners understand and find it useful, they'll repeat it in the future.
    • The more that it's repeated, the more that listeners are more likely to know what it means, and it grows and compounds.
    • In search engines, there are pipelines that detect that key phrases like [MDN] in many contexts should be interpreted like [site:developer.mozilla.org].
    • This is a kind of emergent jargon via an internet-scale process.

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