Jargon emerges organically.
- 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.