Word: jargons
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Souter, 70, who stepped down from the high court in 2009, avoided legal jargon and offered what audience members called an accessible explanation of his judicial philosophy...
...kindred spirits attempting to invent a hermetic universe for themselves. They invent the terms “otherpeoples” and “Shukoffs” in their very first conversation, referring to the mass of boring, unimaginative humans who surround them. Their conversation continues, full of earnest jargon about “trenches,” “lying low,” and “pandangst,” which is supposed to encode their feeling of deep emotional vulnerability. Clara and the narrator escape concrete thoughts and feelings by inventing these hollow terms, constantly...
While the news media disseminates a ton of financial information with the intention of informing the public, the barrage of numbers, pompous words, and economic jargon (no-load index funds, moderate growth fund, treasury-inflation protected securities) often tunes the average American out. While many Harvard students read the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times on occasion, some religiously, not everyone is the average Harvard student...
Issues such as retirement, social security, and health care premiums have been eclipsed by economic jargon spewed out from economists who are reputed to say things that are 100 percent accurate but 100 percent irrelevant. Ask an economist for his address and you will receive his latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, which are perfectly correct but useless to those without a compass or navigation system...
...offenders make up a tech-heavy list. Tweet (and any variation thereof) is included, as is the verb form of friend (as in friending or unfriending someone). App - as a shortened word for application - is another offender. And at the end of a rough financial year, much of the jargon of economic pain has run its course: In these economic times, toxic assets and too big to fail have no place in 2010. (See the top 10 buzzwords...