Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Joel Homer, who chronicles such excrescences in his forthcoming book, Jargon, these terms can fall into the category of "nonverbal verbalizing ... a speech system in which words are used more as images than conceptual symbols." Nonverbal verbalizing (itself an outstanding piece of jargon) flourishes best in its home, Washington, D.C. There, after the Three Mile Island accident gave more mileage to the term, "China Syndrome," Joseph Hendrie, then chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, concluded: "It would be prudent to consider expeditiously the provision of instrumentation that would provide an unambiguous indication of the level of fluid...
...HIID claims to be an objective adviser to foreign governments, or in its own jargon, "to minimize the intrusion of external value judgements." But in helping to shape the economic policies of the Third World, which in turn shape the lives of people, the HIID is, in the words of one, "value ridden...