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In science jobs? No, get a grip. You can't effectively communicate sufficiently-technical ideas without using some jargon. The reason for that jargon is so that instead of describing a concept every time, you have a single precise word which means that concept. Because science is not everyday life, a lot of these concepts get words that are either not used in everyday life, or which have different meanings to their everyday ones.
Almost all fields of science can be simplified and then explained to a lay person by someone who is good at communicating. But in so doing, there are crucial aspects that end up necessarily getting simplified out. That is fine - good even - when you're describing it to a schoolkid or in a news interview, but it is not fine when you're actually doing the work.
Okay but you don’t have to turn everything into an acronym like Redditors and business people do, then pretend you’re smarter than everyone for knowing it.
The worst are corporate internal acronyms.
People use acronyms because referring to things by their verbose names is slow, and those names get used day-in day-out.
There's not a weird superiority complex; that's you inferring things that aren't there IMO.
Actually, having been on reddit for over a decade before I left, I'd agree that there is a superiority complex present on reddit when someone asks for clarification on an acronym.
Without fail, if someone used acronyms that might be considered by some to be "common knowledge", and another user asks what that means, they'll get down votes and sometimes even a "are you joking? Everyone knows it means blah blah blah" or similar comment.
I once saw a person get over 50 down votes for asking "what does ETA mean?" when the OP meant "edited to add". I had never seen anyone use it to mean something other than "estimated time of arrival" and was mildly confused by the "ETA" at the top of the comment. Not one single person explained what it meant. Just down votes. I had no idea either at the time, and didn't care enough to do some light searching.
I'd say the business ones are dependent on where you work. I've never worked in a corporate setting where I'd imagine they're more common, so I can't really comment on that part.