#in trying to be specific a lot of legal jargon comes off vague and sometimes threatening

[godbirdart]

so it’s twitter’s turn to fearmonger over the “we need your permission to distribute and display your content on our platform” terms and conditions

// screenshot is from OP’s post

for those that crosspost over there who might be worried: tumblr has [more or less] the exact same terms. they include this so they can show your content on their platform. that’s it. deviantart had this ~terms and conditions scare~ some time back, and i’m 90% sure tumblr also went through this too

twitter cannot claim ownership rights to your art, your music, anything you post there. if they did, they’d get decimated by the legal teams of the countless corporate brands that advertise there. same goes for tumblr. all this is, is you giving them permission to store your content as a file on their sever [a jpeg, for example] and display on their site to show to other users.

in some cases this extends to things like letting news outlets publish your tweets, though journalists will always - or at least should, for legal reasons - ask your permission before publishing a tweet that includes media that is copyright to you specifically [like a video of a protest you recorded, for example]

tldr; terms and conditions aren’t always as scary as they sound

[homestuckhomestuckhomestuck]

A term of art is “a term that has a specialized meaning in a particular field or profession.”

Examples:

The silicon carbide gems sparkle with more "brilliance," a jeweler's term of art, than genuine diamonds.

Today, popular-priced beer is not terribly popular, and the term of art for the category is ‘subpremium.’

I had not encountered the phrase before, but understood intuitively that it was a programming term of art transposed onto the larger text of the future.

The judge sided with the prosecution, saying that "presumption of innocence" is "a term of art" that does not actually mean presuming the innocence of a defendant.

‘Psychopath’ is one of those terms of art that many of us probably use too freely.

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Slang is “1. language peculiar to a particular group: such as

a : ARGOT

b : JARGON sense 1

2 : an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech”

I’ve also seen “shibboleth” used in sentences similar to this. Related to- dialect, lingo, style of patter. Usually informal, in vague contrast to terms of art, and has been associated with developing in speech rather than formal writing. Think thats changing with internet. “It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.” -wikipedia

Examples:

In the 1920s, Black jazz musicians – marginalized in a predominantly white musical arena – developed a subculture with a rich slang, and turned bad into a compliment.

Pay attention to their idioms and their turns of phrase, to their slang.

"Chicken" is slang for someone who isn't very brave.

Cupcake is coast guard slang for a ‘sweet(er) instructor’ during training. Or: ER slang changes when it gets popularized on television. “Frequent flier” is slang for someone who visits the ER a lot.

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Jargon has basically two meanings/ways this word is used right now. One is: “the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group.” It’s between formal and informal, but associated with something like an “industry standard.” Terminology (i suppose in like the platonic ideal) is made to make specialized work easier/faster/clearer to speak about, that can informally be used (as it is rn) as a way to key in OR show off whether someone knows what they are talking about, and sometimes necessary in the sport or field when talking about the subject to other people. Can also be called argot, getting to that in a sec. There’s medical jargon, legal jargon, tech bro jargon, military jargon, engineering jargon- whatever.

People trying to blow off people or show off a little too much when they perhaps shouldn’t be or the side effect of the above leads to jargon’s second definition: "obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words.” “Confused unintelligible language.” //an academic essay filled with jargon. Incomprehensible business briefings.

Terms of art can turn into jargon but jargon refers to less specialized codified meaning than the term “term of art” and has a more codified kind of meaning to it than saying “style.”

Examples:

For years, computer makers and retailers touted their wares with an onslaught of technical jargon and specifications.

Yes, there is jargon in math, like any other field.

The third option, which comes under the heading of "non-structural" in federal jargon, is to give people incentives to move out of poorly protected communities.

Abandon jargon-filled mission statements and get a clear purpose, a simple set of goals.

They're written in very easy to understand language, essentially free of a lot of jargon.

Economists will be at ease with his use of technical jargon and proofs, while the uninitiated may struggle to keep up.

In design jargon, "appetite appeal" describes the level of sensory stimulation that food packaging should have in order to attract consumers.

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For completion, the lesser known word argot. Definition: “the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.” Seems to be used most closely to “style” but a mite bit more specialized.

Examples:

He has been bombarded by thousands of scathing messages—known as being "flamed" in the argot of cyberspace.

Every generation develops a new argot to separate itself from the one before.

Not sentences alone but entire paragraphs as beautifully and intricately constructed as a Rube Goldberg machine, with cliché backing into argot flirting with Broadway slang, Yiddish and British pretension side by side.

Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing, which is told entirely in Slack chats, so perfectly captured the specific argot of that medium, and went so far with its bizarro premise but managed to deliver.

In the United States, basic mental-health care remains a luxury item; there’s a reason that the most fluent speakers of the trending argot tend to be wealthy and white.

The thieves of the city have a language, or argot, peculiar to themselves.

Although some of this argot relates to combat, much of the military slang comes from the everyday lives of people working together in close quarters and in isolation.

The hypnotizing argot of the art world is familiar to anyone who has ever tried to decipher a gallery press release or encountered a nebulous artist statement.

There is music here; a switchboard youth who giftedly blends slang with argot; even, it has been reported, an interior fountain.

Suffixes and productive semantic devices such as paraphrase, however, are not found in this argot.