it is superficial ( Title of post Borrowed from last episode of Sherlock Season -3).
Years ago, 10-12 years ago I had the unfortunate privilege of going through lot of legal documents,
as well as meeting a lot of people in courts/kutcherys. While going through the documents and looking at the faces of people who wrote them I was surprised. They were folks of enormous frame , wearing starched dhoti and kurta if a munshi and a white trouser with a black jacket if a lawyer.Also known was state of "law education" in Bihar. Mostly those who could not study sciences during their Intermediate , used to graduate with psychology, Hindi or History and enrolled themselves in Law at Post Graduate level. Munshi's were even worse, they simply followed their fathers occupation and took employment at prominent lawyers places.
But level of English in those documents betrayed all their antecedents. Have a look at the following:
"whether or not beyond all reasonable doubts it has been proved ....."
"X,Y &Z with a common criminal intent constituted an illegal mob which assaulted so and so leading to his death the following day."
"assaulted with sharp pointed weapons,blunt heavy weapons causing grievous injuries to so and so"
I was surprised by the sentence formation and appropriate wordings for each event.Crystal clear.
But the surprise was soon over as I skimmed through many more documents. Almost all of them had the same format. There it was the "legal format". They just knew the proper legal terminology and events and based on that they could convert any incident to clear almost flawless legal format/English. The motive behind this story is to convey you the idea that a proper command of the terminologies of your work/occupation is a must have.
From the IT perspective knowledge of the words related to your project/technology and its generous use is highly recommended. Thus what may be a BRD(Business Requirement Document) may become FRS(Functional Requirement Specification) in a new project.Similarly an Enhancement might become a CR(Change Request).But care must be taken and we should express ourselves with whatever terminology is used in the project. Although wording's are superficial and in the end we need to deliver , but this helps with PROJECTION.
A lawyer will finally argue on the points in his case not on the language,but his proper usage of legal terminologies projects his abilities beforehand ,and he literally OWNS THE CLIENT. Similarly you will finally code your way out,but proper terminologies and wordings will make you stand out from the rest.
To emphasize on this point of projection I will share a small anecdote. Two years ago I attended a town hall with infamous CEO of Infosys S D Shibulal. Most common question was "Why do we have to wear tie and why do we have to swipe 9.15 daily even if we finish earlier?" He narrated an event where he was at client location along with two of his colleagues. To clients all Indians looked the same and they were confused who the Boss was.
Shibulal after few initial embarrassments decided to end this confusion for once and all.
He purchased a jacket and though not very comfortable in wearing it just placed it on the back of his chair. BAM. Problem solved.Client now knew whom to contact.This is the power of Confident Projection. Thus jacket for a manager , tie for an associate/SE builds the PROJECTION.
And proper terminologies and wordings build/enhance this projection way better than a tie or a jacket. So go ahead know all the terms/terminologies of your occupation use them generously.
Years ago, 10-12 years ago I had the unfortunate privilege of going through lot of legal documents,
as well as meeting a lot of people in courts/kutcherys. While going through the documents and looking at the faces of people who wrote them I was surprised. They were folks of enormous frame , wearing starched dhoti and kurta if a munshi and a white trouser with a black jacket if a lawyer.Also known was state of "law education" in Bihar. Mostly those who could not study sciences during their Intermediate , used to graduate with psychology, Hindi or History and enrolled themselves in Law at Post Graduate level. Munshi's were even worse, they simply followed their fathers occupation and took employment at prominent lawyers places.
But level of English in those documents betrayed all their antecedents. Have a look at the following:
"whether or not beyond all reasonable doubts it has been proved ....."
"X,Y &Z with a common criminal intent constituted an illegal mob which assaulted so and so leading to his death the following day."
"assaulted with sharp pointed weapons,blunt heavy weapons causing grievous injuries to so and so"
I was surprised by the sentence formation and appropriate wordings for each event.Crystal clear.
But the surprise was soon over as I skimmed through many more documents. Almost all of them had the same format. There it was the "legal format". They just knew the proper legal terminology and events and based on that they could convert any incident to clear almost flawless legal format/English. The motive behind this story is to convey you the idea that a proper command of the terminologies of your work/occupation is a must have.
From the IT perspective knowledge of the words related to your project/technology and its generous use is highly recommended. Thus what may be a BRD(Business Requirement Document) may become FRS(Functional Requirement Specification) in a new project.Similarly an Enhancement might become a CR(Change Request).But care must be taken and we should express ourselves with whatever terminology is used in the project. Although wording's are superficial and in the end we need to deliver , but this helps with PROJECTION.
A lawyer will finally argue on the points in his case not on the language,but his proper usage of legal terminologies projects his abilities beforehand ,and he literally OWNS THE CLIENT. Similarly you will finally code your way out,but proper terminologies and wordings will make you stand out from the rest.
To emphasize on this point of projection I will share a small anecdote. Two years ago I attended a town hall with infamous CEO of Infosys S D Shibulal. Most common question was "Why do we have to wear tie and why do we have to swipe 9.15 daily even if we finish earlier?" He narrated an event where he was at client location along with two of his colleagues. To clients all Indians looked the same and they were confused who the Boss was.
Shibulal after few initial embarrassments decided to end this confusion for once and all.
He purchased a jacket and though not very comfortable in wearing it just placed it on the back of his chair. BAM. Problem solved.Client now knew whom to contact.This is the power of Confident Projection. Thus jacket for a manager , tie for an associate/SE builds the PROJECTION.
And proper terminologies and wordings build/enhance this projection way better than a tie or a jacket. So go ahead know all the terms/terminologies of your occupation use them generously.
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