technical jargon ??????

[janbubears]

Hi All

i do struggle sometimes when i read the forum due to some technical jargon used, or is it me been thick ???

dont know how the newbies go on, i spend most my time copy pasting try to decypher

ha ha  jan xxx

[janbubears]

hi quix

funny enough its never usually you - i find your explanations pretty straight forward.

Its only sometimes when members use techno stuff - its not usually abbreviations just big words..

its me i think i do find things hard to grasp and quite confusing at times.. but saying that i am gradually getting used to the words used and getting myself educated in the mean time  xxxx

thank u  jan xxxxx

[Quixotic1]

Okay, besides the acronyms we do and I do often slip into technobabble.  Most of the time I try to avoid it, but it depends on whether I am thinking or not.  "Not" has been the most common state recently.

Whenever someone has slipped too deeply into technospeech it would be nice to have a heads up - at least for me it would.  I see one  of my main roles here as teacher.  If the language isn't clear there is no teaching going on.  A quick way would be a post on the thread something like:

Quix - ?????  and then the word(s) that aren't understood.  It should only take a couple of these to help me remember to explain things more clearly.

And I guess we will have to drop the requirement of medical school or a PhD for membership to the forum.  I guess that's for the best, lol.

Q

[Lulu54]

Janjubear -
we have just the thing for you - a health page of common acronyms.  We use these as shorthand - it sure is easier to type BPPV than Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

or EDSS in place of Expanded Disability Status Scale

the HP (health page) can be found at

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Multiple-Sclerosis/Commonly-used-MS-Acronyms/show/438?cid=36

I hope you find this useful.

best, Lulu

[RedFlame]

Hi Jan,  I think having a list of abbreviations or jargon would be helpful.  We may already have one though I don't know.

The ones that trip me up are the ones that aren't directly about MS.  Like BPPV, or things like that.  Sometimes I look them up only to forget them again later.

It's good to find the humor in these things.

Red