The popular witicism "I don't know who discovered water, but I'm damm sure it wasn't a fish," conveys a message to educators in all subject areas, especially chemistry. Because our disciplines are becoming more and more specialized, our language has become more and more technical. The 65% of the students in our classes who are not talented encounter a kind of language pollution as they move through six different classrooms a day. The teacher,
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