John Drane

The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.

American Theologian

Susie Dent

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.

English Scientist

Nina Bawden

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

British Writer

Angela Rayner

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.

British Politician

Anne Stevenson

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

American Poet

Ezra Pound

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

American Author

Ol Parker

I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.

Mario Monti

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

Italian Public Servant

Kevin Mitnick

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

American Businessman

Jargon can be confusing if you're not familiar with the specific field it comes from.

Confusion Alert

Jargon is not understood globally; it varies between different professions and regions.

Not Universal

Some jargon can become mainstream over time and get incorporated into everyday language.

Language Evolution

In computing, jargon can make the field seem inaccessible to beginners.

Barrier to Entry

When explaining technology, avoiding jargon makes your explanation more accessible.

Keep it Simple

In computing, jargon can quickly change or become outdated due to the fast-paced nature of technology.

Rapid Changes

 This repetitive or periodic motion is characteristic of waves. Then you notice something else using a stopwatch, you measure the time it takes for the piece of cork to go over its highest position down to its lowest and then back up again. Suppose this takes two seconds. To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on.

What is color? - Colm...

 they didn't necessarily have the answers, who said -- well, they weren't going to talk in jargon. They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them. So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget,

Social Services Are...

 The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.

Tal Golesworthy: How I...

 because I don't agree with you about what's the truth. But we have this jargon term of neutrality, which has its own long history within the community, which basically says, any time there's a controversial issue, Wikipedia itself should not take a stand on the issue. We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it.

Jimmy Wales: How a...

 The first entry said, "The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured or conventional way." The definition at the bottom refers to specialized fields, like medicine, science, tech. We know they have their own vernacular, their own jargon.

The language of being...

 jargon can be windows into the past present and future archaeology is one way of making connections between these old things and people and events one entry way into telling stories for creating knowledge or for interpreting the world around us the archaeology of modern times is in

Adrian Myers: Where...

 It seems to me that there are five key lessons that I've shown on this slide that are critically important for effective task shifting. The first is that we need to simplify the message that we're using, stripping away all the jargon that medicine has invented around itself.

Mental Health for All by...

 Don't just tell me that you study trabeculae, but tell me that you study trabeculae, which is the mesh-like structure of our bones because it's important to understanding and treating osteoporosis. And when you're describing your science, beware of jargon.

Melissa Marshall: Talk...

 accurately tested using an app and an eye tracker. We've got many trials going on in the community and in schools, and through the lessons that we've learned in the field, we've realized it's extremely important to share the data in non-medical jargon

Andrew Bastawrous: Get...

 shortcut or a breakthrough in the jargon of Silicon Valley we want disruptions technological innovations that appear like miracles and displace tired ways of doing things often by competing on price but in the real world technological

Jargon

Special words or expressions used by a particular profession or group that might be hard for others to understand.

Often appears as...

Words or expressions used by people in a particular field or interest that are difficult to understand for those outside the field.

Often appears as...

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