How To Use Jargon In A Sentence

Fanagalo, the jargon used on the mines, he advised them to 'tchella lo baas wena meningi mali; picanniny sebenza', meaning 'demand more pay and less work'. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 7
This article's so full of jargon it's just double Dutch to me.
The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Many hospitals, for instance, make a professional available to go over the records with the patient, who might not understand the medical jargon therein.
A survey of small businesses has found that more than a quarter have admitted they made the wrong IT purchases because they were confused by overly complicated technical jargon.

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The offer was couched in legal jargon.
The only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.
It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language.
APEC seems be drowning in an ocean of jargon.
Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania. The French Revolution
You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down,' as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained. Kate Coventry An Autobiography
The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning. CONTENTS:
Remember your international visitors by avoiding regional word usage or technical jargon that could alienate.
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
From the outset a policy was adopted which aimed at eliminating unnecessary jargon and the mystique normally associated with computers.
In fact ask any management specialist, from any sector, to exclude every word of jargon from a conversation, and there is likely to be silence.
This results in the "valorization" - Marxist jargon for value enhancement - "of all that which renders the life of an individual unique" - which is to say our concern for our uniqueness, our identity in social contexts, becomes a kind of value-generating capital, or rather a circulating commodity. PopMatters
Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
This is the essential function of a cliché, and of cant and jargon; to neutralise expression and ‘vanish memory’.
Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
Yeah, it’s probably a thing where they’re used to the jargon that distinguishes a UPC barcode from an ISBN barcode, and are aware Marvel carried both until now, so it’s perfectly clear to them, but to anyone else a barcode is a barcode. Marvel Eliminates Barcodes on Collections » Comics Worth Reading
Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
A person I went to school with, Janna Underinner, is now working with one of the Oregon Coast reservations (it may be the Grand Ronde reservation) to make Chinook wawa their language (I'm a little fuzzy about the exact situation), so your short story would be good, but my impression is that Chinook Jargon is based on Nuuchanuulth which is Wakashan, not Salishan. Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
Our simple and occasionally fun jargon uncloaks what are truly complex concepts and grants the reporter and the public an opportunity to think about the ideas rather than puzzle over the names of things.
Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics.
I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte — I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Ivanhoe
Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D. -trained ear. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
On Hardball and its like, egos run rampant, insider jargon predominates, and agreeability, if any can be detected, is strictly limited to commercial breaks. J-School for Jerks
At no point did his tussles with people turn into anything as ghastly and jargonistic as a 'practice'. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily for us, Jim Boulden has decided to explain with one of his jargon busters, "U," "V," "W's" and bathtubs. CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009
Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction. Embassytown by China Miéville – review
Except for chapter 3, the prose is exceptionally lucid with little jargon.
Spunnels" in the public's jargon, came into being, the term compressed from the phrase "hyperspace tunnels," a universal phenomenon once suspected and eventually confirmed. The Universe — or Nothing
In the jargon of transport planners, there has occurred a substantial modal shift in transportation in these cities.
Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums. Surprised by Joy
Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners, so that a poor writer has plenty of elbow room in this Babelish language, which has since been taken in hand by Droll Stories — Volume 2
Try to avoid using too much technical jargon.
She seems most happy when talking in business jargon, making her conversation blunt and unnuanced, and is strangely unemotional. Times, Sunday Times
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
The aim is to demystify subjects and there is an emphasis on moving away from professional jargon and universal objectivity.
Pretty soon, she had learnt all the tricks of the game along with the jargon!
Presumably after having jargonized and marketfocused their message stream. Dell learns a lesson « BuzzMachine
It's unfortunate that the commonality of social interaction relies on the implied tone of voice through emojis, emoticons, textual jargon and caps lock.
Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
Do not confuse your reader with technical terms or jargon.
At 21 Shane Warne thought a flipper was pinball jargon.
The word Cheechako, from Chinook Jargon, originated in the United States (Alaska) and Canada GotPoetry.com News
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
I think you are being too hard on it; Chandler was a sea captain and what you refer to as 'jargony' is actually the 'real thing'. THE HAMELIN PLAGUE by A. Bertram Chandler (Monarch 1963)
The problem is exacerbated by the various fashions in librarianship - how many libraries now prefer to be called ‘resource centres’ or other such jargon?
Ounce, Dice, Trice" is a book for children that's full of words: magnificent, wonderful, strange, fabulous words like frangipani, dimity, gloaming and nunnery, and murdo, drumjargon and chumly. Kids' Book Boasts The Best Words, Real Or Not
Luborsky suggested an explanation: “The different forms of psychotherapy have major common elements—a helping relationship with a therapist…along with the other related, nonspecific effects such as suggestion and abreaction Freudian jargon for emotional catharsis.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
All her polemics and essays are written with a disciplined, jargon-free clarity.
I am fully persuaded, that this was your original complaint in Carniola, which those ignorant physicians called, in their jargon, Arthritis vaga, and treated as such. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Neither cinema's guileful cultural artifacts nor the somnambulistic, moribund jargon that unpacks them know anything about that.
That all of us fall prey to the seduction of jargon is too well known just as the analysand enchanted by his own voice talks it out all or the Khayal singer who often happens to be the last person in the auditorium. Archive 2009-08-01
Can you help me translate this legal jargon into plain English?
In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit.
Simultaneously he might have bombed or "nuked," as current jargon would have it, Detroit, Boston and Ottawa. Psychosphere
Oooooh ... jargon just gives me the creepie-jeepies! "factoid"
Check out the Chinook Jargon page that zaelic gives and head out to the conference to get the latest word, though. Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
Ninety-eight percent of his remarks are highly technical - utterly brilliant in their command of detail, virtually unquotable in their density of jargon.
At the top of the list of important factors either slighted or missing entirely, in Christopher Andrew's view, is "SIGINT" ” intelligence jargon for signals intelligence, which means broadcast communications of all kinds, but most importantly encrypted communications that code breakers have managed to read. The Plot Thickens
Then you put in very long hours and collect a nice salary, while employing your jargon to intimidate outsiders. The Guardian World News
Apparently 72% of people have found letters from some organisations so patronising, insulting, confusing and full of jargon that they have cut all ties with them.
Since Artforum had been described as "jargony" I framed a question about that: "Some complain that Artforum is full of jargon and that it does not cover painting. John Seed: Artforum : Slowly Sinking in a Sea of Bloggers? Not Quite...
He has actually lived what careerist academics prefer to patronise and jargonise in structuralist abstraction.
All necessary means" is diplomatic jargon for "war".
Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night! Ardath
Can someone translate this legal jargon into plain English for me?
Is "overdetermine" really jargon? it's exactly what I mean, and it's part of an important point. Wired Campus
Let's address some jargon you'll have to contend with if you want pure advice. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He'd culled enough jargon from his own victim research to make it look like the real thing, he thought. THE LAST TEMPTATION
You need someone to help you cut through all the irritating legal jargon.
A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
As soon as her husband went to the City in the morning her operations began; if he remained away at dinner, her labours still continued: nor is it necessary for me to particularise her course of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz – Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and solfeggios is quite unknown to me. Mens Wives
In official language, this occurs through the use of technical terms - acronyms and jargon.
In sensory or receptive aphasia, there is a problem with comprehension, and affected people produce speech that sounds fluent but is actually nonsensical or full of meaningless jargon.
Linden Lab, creator of animated world Second Life, which people explore using simulated figures, is announcing Tuesday that some of those avatars have successfully been transferred -- or "teleported," in the jargon of virtual-world fans -- to a separate world operated by International Business Machines Corp. Linden Avatars Boldly Go
Attractive, easygoing, affable, with their own ritualized jargon, the argot of the well-born Atlanta male among his peers. DOWNTOWN
Mind you, the site has given me new insight into the jargon of the loveless.
Is it any wonder that the public's perception of science is that of a bunch of boring egomaniacs jargonizing endlessly about trivialities?
Thinking about Florence in that jarring bit of jargon always brought a mental smile to Carlisle's Ph. D. -trained ear. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
The one substantive get of the evening, financial-regulation grande dame Elizabeth Warren, was rushed through a wonkfest that was heavy on jargon, but so lacking in background and context that it was hard to know what was going on. Parker Spitzer: no snap or crackle, and not pop
Because jargon like this is so easy to ignore, I've translated a few of his quotes -- which were delivered to an audience of government geeks -- into plain, everyday geekspeak: Kundra Drops More Hints About Government Tech Procurement
But immediately, turning to Tamara, she passionately and rapidly began saying something in an agreed jargon, which presented a wild mixture out of the Hebrew, Tzigani and Roumanian tongues and the cant words of thieves and horse-thieves. Yama: the pit
Shivani: The most distinctive thing about Kapitoil is Karim's language -- a hybrid of business/mathematical jargon with a peculiar literal-mindedness. Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil"
There were other photos at different angles, and a detailed outline of the wound from the coroner's office with a lot of medical jargon penciled in. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Actually, however, it is too naive to assume simply that ` jargon 'equals "long words" even though we can see why we feel the temptation, when the enemy called taxmen inland revenue officials or when mockery devises artificial bipartite abdominal integument as a replacement for trousers. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
Secondly, and connectedly, it is an attempt at absolute relinquishment of the vantage of a particular sector, class, dialect, jargon, idiolect or diction.
Geeks were cool, jargon was kewl.
In the worst cases no such meaning exists, and parsing the text reveals only hints of sense in masses of gibberish; other times the alchemy succeeds, and a plain emphatic version of the writer’s intentions suddenly emerges from the jumble of jargon like the hidden image in an autostereogram. December « 2008 « Sentence first
She deploys their concepts flexibly and insightfully to enrich the book's content without encumbering its style with jargon.
They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
“Social Darwinism” was just laissez-faire economics by another name; what SBTS describes as “intelligent design in business” is a jargonized variant on concepts that businesses have been successfully applying for the last thirty or forty years. Mind Your Businesses - The Panda's Thumb
Try to avoid using too much technical jargon.
The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have "utility functions" instead of needs and wants. Tenure trouble?
Clarifying the term missional can only happen if we reduce the jargon, not increase it. Glocal Christianity
Sheltered from reality in the public circus, these people seriously believed that their complicated jargon would be understood by the average shmuck on the street.
He needn't have bothered, as I couldn't follow his jargoned explanation of nano-technology anyway, but I can tell you this much: The Flying Wi-Fi is about the size of a small moth, it can stealthily hover or remain stationary almost silently in any location, and it's equipped with an ultra-sensitive wi-fi camera (with an amazing wide-angle lens) and microphone. "The Flying Wi-Fi": Working Out the Bugs
More legal speak from Mr. Cushing, more jargon from the viewer table. Brokers « A Fly in Amber
In my opinion, this new language used by Internet users is essentially Internet chatterers' jargon.
The jargon partook of every accent and intonation the empire boasts of; and from the sharp precision of the North Tweeder to the broad doric of Kerry, every portion, almost every county, of Great Britain had its representative. Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
‘The speech dealt with a topic that called for a lot of academic jargon and legalese,’ says James.
We should all know to avoid polysyllabic jargon.
With much success he walks a fine line between scholarly jargon and patronizing colloquialism.
People talk about ‘cruising the net’, ‘surfing in Cyberspace’ and a number of other largely meaningless and highly jargonised phrases.
Behind all the financial jargon, basically what the meeting was about was how to tax some of the mobile capital that's bouncing around the global economy.
Wine tasters have their own vocabulary or jargon, just like other groups of enthusiasts: computer geeks, ballroom dancers, etc.
Intresting post, and not too “jargonized” at all as comparing it to that ridiculously elaborate piece of work by Henry Dougan demonstrates. Grouping People Together: The Problems and Prospects of Panethnic Language
Even if someone was formal with him, they would have to be familiar with biochemical jargon and terminology, or Edward would act condescendingly to them.
Chinook Jargon:a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
Small offices line the hallways, each with beveled glass doors displaying the names of the ministers and employees who occupy them, as well as snippets of the church-meets-modern-management jargon that pervades the organization. American Grace
A graduate student in sociology is one who didn't get his fill of jargonized wishful thinking as an undergraduate. Sociology and Other 'Meathead' Majors
“Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil — why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated — they are all of the tribe of Macfungus — mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.” The Antiquary
My mission was to explain this with baffling technical jargon and pie charts - mmmm, pies - while Stella's role was to talk money and promise unobtainable IT related happiness.
Their jargon is impenetrable to an outsider.
Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil -- why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated -- they are all of the tribe of Macfungus -- mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie. The Antiquary — Volume 01
In Kantian jargon, the category only yields knowledge of objects if it is “schematized,” applied to given objects under the conditions of time. Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
Ryle compares the “jargon” words of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, etc. to “half-hardy annuals” rather than “hardy perennials” because there is no special field of knowledge (save philosophy itself) by which philosophers get their mastery of concepts, say, of Cognition, Sensation, Gilbert Ryle
Unfortunately, the issues in this particular case involve two esoteric disciplines: cytogenetics the study of chromosomes, and population genetics, both of which are difficult to explain without the specialized jargon. The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb
impenetrable jargon
I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of 'curee, arbor, nombles', and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. Ivanhoe
The industry jargon that rolls off his tongue is that of a consummate marketer.
Financial jargon is becoming a thing of the past due to IFSRA's efforts to educate consumers and encourage the financial industry to speak in plain English.
And he discovered that whizzkids in IT may be brainboxes when it comes to mastering the microchip, but too many are locked in a world of jargon seemingly too lofty for ordinary mortals to understand.
The 6ft 3in art dealer - or ' gallerist', to use the art- world jargon - is at a crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
These are the moot-points now filling all France with jargon, logic and eleutheromania. The French Revolution
The offer was couched in legal jargon.
In it, golf turns up as a gag having to do with such inexplicable jargon as "mashie" and "cleek. What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
It's not so much that faculty feel embarrassed by their lack of information literacy, but Watt in particular feels kind of jargoned at. Information literacy
I grew up in a medical family and we grew up with that sort of jargon being as ordinary as leggo. Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.
Jargon can be seen in a positive way, enabling communication within a specialised subject.
Zircon has been known since biblical times, and it has been called by a variety of names, including jargon, hyacinth and jacinth. Zirconium
This is the only way one can reasonably explain the numerous grammatical and spelling errors, logical non sequiturs, inaccuracies, misquotes, opaque prose, and prolific use of jargon that clutter almost every page.
The whale, named Tilikum or "friend" in the Native American language Chinook Jargon, is among the killer whales, dolphins and seals whose shows have made SeaWorld so popular. Iac world news feed
The correct mix of important looking fonts, jargon and shiny paper combining to give the illusion of authenticity.
Industry jargon calls such models desktop replacements, but "luggable" is a better word for an overstuffed and oversize notebook PC. Latest from Computerworld
James Murdoch is giving the Committee a jargon masterclass. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He does that by making fun of ‘the jargon, the mush, the smog, the dull pompous, boneless, gassy language’ that afflicts the world today.
Cutting through all of the government verbiage and jargon, if you will, what is the impact over the next five years?
The IT&T industry is rife with acronyms, catchphrases and jargon.
I read with the greatest appreciation those contributions that were not heavy with academic jargon.
Romanian and Bulgarian membership comes after a decade of "conditionality" -- whereby Brussels has compelled the two countries to implement tens of thousands of pages of EU law (the acquis, in Euro-jargon) and to improve domestic administration and adjudication, as well as fight crime and corruption. Open the Doors
Once again, Quinion's World Wide Words explains the history: "octothorpe" was Bell Labs jargon for one of those two function keys on touch-tone telephones that got labeled with symbols instead of numbers. Archive 2008-05-01
He always speaks in obscure legal jargon.
It is a vulgar error -- an abuse of terms -- the mere jargon of jockeyship, to say that the horse needs suppling to perform this, or any other air of the manége, or anything else that man can make him do; all that he wants is to be made acquainted with the wishes of his rider, and inspired with the desire to execute them. Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
Here, they're all playing nicely at moguldom and at mentoring, professing a commitment to nurturing talent and using the term "support system" in a way that splits the difference between the jargon of self-help and the language of networking. Slate Magazine
Techno-geek jargon, such as 'prosumer', makes regular appearances that some may find cringeworthy. Times, Sunday Times
Let the jargon slinger know that you know who they are: a vapid, message-clouding, English-avoiding, communications nightmare. The Most Annoying Business Jargon
The New Hacker's Dictionary and its online version, The Jargon File (www. catb.org/~esr/jargon), gets it almost exactly right, I believe. Information Today News Breaks
And this reporter finally had to ask one of the boys to define the word servo, just one of the jargon words the boys were throwing around as if they were long-time veterans of creating robots with an archeological bent. Undefined
You don't realize how often we use terms ambiguously in our technical jargon ... MSDN Blogs
In modern educational jargon, leadership is taken to be a transferable skill.
In it occurs this sentence: "The college girl is grammatical in speech, but she has the jolliest, chummiest jargon of slang that ever rolled from under a pink tongue. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
He eschews technical jargon and any pretence of omniscience, providing instead an intimate, heartfelt account of his experiences.
BUT this refined jargon, which has infested letters and tainted morals, is chiefly admired and adopted by _young ladies_ of a certain turn, who read _sentimental books_, write _sentimental letters_, and contract Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies
The only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.
This is a highly readable, jargon-free treatise on a notoriously prickly subject, intended for general readers rather than academics.
When investing long term, you need to steer clear of plans that are difficult to understand or packed with jargon, have high charges or are inflexible and lock you in with penalties.
In Mr. Salonen’s Floof, a setting of a text by the Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem about an android that teaches itself to write love poetry using the jargon of higher math instead of the language of hearts and bodies, Ms. Arnold effortlessly alternated between lucid coloratura vocalism and the roughest, most guttural sounds; conductor Jeffrey Milarsky and the Miller musicians drove home Mr. Salonen’s punchy, rugged brand of postminimalism with assurance and aplomb. Philip Roth��s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs
It is difficult to define which words or phrases constitute jargon.
More important, the premium on "original" research has caused the eclipse of teaching and resulted in the overproduction of jargon-heavy esoterica or trivial "scholarship" intended merely to win preferment within the professors guild. Hello, Adjunct, Meet Prof. Cozy
Add a little debt to the balance sheet—my editor used the quaint English jargon "gearing" instead of the now-famous "leverage"—and any dowdy financial firm can transform itself into a high-octane profit machine. 'Lazy' Banks Make Sense
Beneath the jargon, cautious phrases and academic courtesies, one thing was clear: the consensus about social constructs was unraveling.
And habeas corpus is pretty tricky because its jargonistic meaning is so far removed from its literal sense, but it might reasonably be translated as пусть душу представят, I would guess without Googling, or more literally (указаем), чтобы ты представил тело. The Volokh Conspiracy » PC
According to the company, it was able to get operating profits (called 'netback' in oil industry jargon) of around 83% of the proceeds of the sale of oil and gas in India, after accounting for operating expenses and government levies. Analysis
But industry likes to badge its products with lots of jargon that does make it very difficult for a consumer to understand.
The high-tech industry, for example, is loaded with jargon.
And, from the viewpoint of an outsider, the jargon was dense. A DEATH IN TIME
The danger is that jargon deludes both the speaker and the audience. Cutting through the jargon
Instead of padding your language with unnecessary and often meaningless words and phrases (i.e., "globalize," "push the envelope," "intellectual capital," "core competency"), consider ways that will help you speak and write with more clarity and less jargon. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
It seems to be killing disciplines like literary criticism, where voguishness and arcane jargon have alienated the ordinary educated reader. The New Age of the Book
From the outset a policy was adopted which aimed at eliminating unnecessary jargon and the mystique normally associated with computers.
Bunett's prose is often loaded with arty jargon and heavyweight expressions that are virtually incomprehensible.
Named for the corn and yucca beer typically made by Andean Indians, chicha has come to represent a vibrant popular culture of tinny cumbia music, doleful lyrics, bright neon colors, and a peculiar street jargon.
And habeas corpus is pretty tricky because its jargonistic meaning is so far removed from its literal sense, but it might reasonably be translated as пусть душу представят, I would guess without Googling, or more literally указаем, чтобы ты представил тело. The Volokh Conspiracy » PC
Once you can talk the language - which is arguably as arcane and jargonistic as anything dreamed up in an ivory tower - then we can figure out how we can help each other. Coding Dispositions at GDC
It is banal, orotund, unmusical, and stuffed with wads of unnecessary jargon.
WASHINGTON -- Two years after the Supreme Court voided many of the country's bedrock campaign finance laws, much of the American public is still confused by the change -- and stupefied by the often-impenetrable jargon that frequently encumbers any discussion of the topic. Stephen Colbert's PAC Parody Explains Campaign Finance To America (Part 1)
He'd culled enough jargon from his own victim research to make it look like the real thing, he thought. THE LAST TEMPTATION
She'd become addicted to therapies, psychoanalytic jargon and psychobabble, in place of religion perhaps. THE TATTOOED GIRL
Chinese paper mills are paying $228 for a baled ton of old corrugated containers—industry jargon for used cardboard boxes—leaving ports around Los Angeles, up 5% from March 2010, and well past the going rate of $160 per ton in March 2007, according to Official Board Markets, a weekly report for the packaging and paper recycling industry. Scrappy Collectors Profit From China's Paper Needs
One of the joys of following English soccer is learning some of its delightful jargon.
It is not easy reading for it is larded with the bureaucratic jargon that marks the EU.
Scotch, the sorriest of jargons, compared with which even Roth Welsch is dignified and expressive, has yet one word to express what would be inexpressible by any word or combination of words in any language, or in any other jargon in the world; and very properly; for as the nonsense is properly Scotch, so should the word be Scotch which expresses it -- that word is "fushionless," pronounced The Romany Rye
There is a lot of guff and jargon surrounding this issue.
But come on, when you first saw the word "cruciverbalist," didn't you think it might have something to do with religious jargon? Oh joy!
No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either. WalesOnline - Home
The only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.
'_nein, nein, nein_,' sprang at him like a little tiger, and by the fierceness of her gestures and the volubility of her German jargon actually compelled him to retreat step by step until she had him outside the door, which she barred with her diminutive person. Tracy Park
Punters can also run a sweepstake with their own special online kit, learn the jargon of racecards or unravel the mysteries of the tic-tac man.
As I say, there's a lot of jargon and bureaucratic gobbledygook here.
The actors spout a lot of technical jargon and use super-duper equipment to figure it all out. Globe and Mail
While the jargon is all retro health and safety-education material, the culty fetishism is more J.G. Ballard than CPR. Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives
Keep it simple and avoid the use of jargon.
The Art of American Book Covers is easily one of Minsky's greatest works, a stunning example of critical art history that is free of any kind of curatorial jargon, fundamentally respectful of our intelligence, yet clear, accessible and useful. Jules Siegel: A Joy-Filled Book on the Art of the Book Cover
Typical big-shot jargon whenever a warehouse was robbed, a state-owned car was stolen, a cashier was held up. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
In electronic jargon we can imagine that it is a hard-wired input - output circuit.
More importantly, it is written in a jargon-free language that is readily comprehensible to the non-specialist reader.

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