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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. — Mason Cooley

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand

The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions. — Donna K. Fitch

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative. — David Pogue

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories. — Ian P. Griffin

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. — R.D. Laing

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell

The truth is that you are afraid.'
'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean. — Alexandre Dumas

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense. — Kate Atkinson

Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer. — Frederick Lenz

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. — George MacDonald Fraser

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another. — John Maynard Smith

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. — Eric Bentley

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. — Corinne Maier

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand. — Mason Cooley

The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon. — James W. Blinn

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer

It doesn't require jargon to describe the soul. — Aporva Kala

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying. — Justin Chambers

The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy. — Rae Armantrout

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson

There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. — Kip Thorne

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. — Richard Mitchell

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task. — Theodor Adorno

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. — Edsger Dijkstra

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are! — Lewis Carroll

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. — Mario Monti

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies. — V.S. Naipaul

Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands. — Ron Kaufman

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that. — Gautam Adani

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. — David Ogilvy