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David Pogue offers some suggestions the selection of non-jargony words when writing/speaking about technology. Most of these I agree with. Here's a few:
* Enable. Who on earth says, "Enable the GPS function"? Only user-manual writers and computer-book authors. Say "Turn on GPS" instead.
* Support. I don't mean "support" as in "tech support," although even that term is a corporate creepy cop-out (it means "help line"). No, I mean the verb, as in, "The laptop supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth."
In no other corner of modern discourse is "support" used that way. I use "has," "offers" or "works with.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/technology/personaltech/16pogue-email.html?_r=1&8cir&emc=cira1&oref=slogin
