All 6 Uses of
jargon
in
Do You Speak American?
- (3) the introduction by more and more incompetent English teachers, products of the new system ...of ever fancier techniques of not teaching English, for which, if the methods involved new technologies and were couched in the appropriately impenetrable jargon, grants could readily be obtained;†
Chpt 1jargon = specialized vocabulary
- Take the common American expression come clean, to tell or confess everything, which originated in cant, or underworld jargon, and emerged as common slang in the 1920s.†
Chpt 1 *
- Starfucking is just one example of how movie-industry jargon has permeated Mainstream American English.†
Chpt 7
- Not only is surfer talk evolving, like every form of specialized slang or jargon, but surfers are as much influenced by other features of the California dialect as Valley Girl talk is by surfers.†
Chpt 7
- Surfboarding begat skateboarding, which begat snowboarding, and each new sport begat its own new slang and jargon.†
Chpt 7
- We are endlessly creative, and that innovation in all fields constantly generates fresh language, considered slang or jargon when new, but soon made respectable or it disappears.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
-
(1)
(jargon) words or expressions commonly used in a particular field but not understood by most people
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, jargon can reference nonsensical use of words.