The Only Use of
jargon
in
Fahrenheit 451
- She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
p. 39.3jargon = words not known to most people
Definitions:
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(1)
(jargon) words or expressions commonly used in a particular field but not understood by most people
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, jargon can reference nonsensical use of words.