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Hi. I'm doing a lot of in-house editing, and I'm having trouble identifying
what's jargon and what's actually a term that someone will recognize. The
writers have ceded on "shops," but are sticking to "zaps" and "hot-keyed."
About 75 percent of our documentation is for mainframe environments, and
the documents that use the most jargon are geared toward systems
administrators, so I am willing to admit that the Microsoft and Sun manuals
are not always on-target. Does anyone know of a source that will tell you
what's jargon and what's not?
