Some owners of tornado shelters have had to lock them up because they've become "attractive nuisances" in the legal jargon, serving as venues for pot parties, etc. Better option is the "safe room" interior to the house that is used daily or frequently for other purposes.
This jargon only serves to distance fundraisers and their donors from the cause.
At its heart this is a serious and ambitious work (all 650 pages of it) and the anecdotes and jargon always serve to emphasise important points.
Mr. Crystal, who is British, is that rare academic linguist who can discuss language authoritatively without resorting to the polysyllabic jargon that often serves as a wall around that realm of scholarship.
Adding to the confusion, "convention" frequently serves as jargon within economics, anthropology, and sociology.
Women in the British armed forces are not, to quote the Ministry of Defence jargon, allowed to serve in "small tactical combat arms teams" in which they might have to "close with and kill the enemy face-to-face".
Attending a panel at the Guggenheim on art in the United Arab Emirates, Heddaya noted how the ongoing controversies over labor conditions for workers building the Gugg's new Abu Dhabi museum were given short shrift, and he reflected on how art jargon seemed to serve as a tool to deflect the question.
By using legal jargon it looks a lot more "real" and meaningful and "the formality serves a purpose of making it feel 'official' and therefore more important".
Filled with 21st-century classroom and parental jargon like "thinking chair," "friendly circle" and " 'listen up' bell," the story is unabashedly didactic, but for grown-ups, be they frantic or merely concerned, it serves its purpose well.
School becomes a prelude to his life in the regiment (the Royal Welch Fusiliers), in which discipline, serving men's jargon and the indignities of communal life get magnified by the jeopardy of the frontline.
