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Excuses aside, by using lame or impenetrable terms, organizations that serve laudable public purposes do not advance their chances in the competition for foundation funds -- not when most jargon and cliches can be avoided with a little effort.
I'll join the ranks of Jeff Jarvis, Paul Gillin, Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky in competing to see who can use the most jargon to describe something everyone knows is happening.
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The aim is to challenge scientists to explain their research through dance, the most jargon-free medium available.
The competition challenges scientists around the world to explain their research through the most jargon-free medium available: interpretive dance.
This is the 7th year of the contest sponsored by Science, AAAS (publisher of Science), and HighWire Press which challenges scientists around the world to explain their Ph.D. research in the most jargon-free medium of all: dance.
Why is the phrase "class warfare" still in popular use, though most Marxist jargon has gone out of fashion?
However, the most influential jargon over the years has probably been the laconic asides of Chandler's own Philip Marlowe – not bad for a writer educated at Dulwich College in Edwardian London.
I think we need less political jargon, most people don't know what the deficit means.
A large proportion, if not most, of Chinook Jargon vocabulary was taken from Chinook proper.
Earthy, gossipy and girlish in private, Dr. Rizzo has a weakness for the most arcane education jargon when trying at news conferences to describe her accomplishments; one reason, perhaps, that the changes she has made have not received much attention.
This definition of retronym seems to be the most accepted: "retronym (jargon) -- A term invented to distinguish a subclass of things from new members of the superclass, where the distinction was previously not necessary, since the old subclass had been all there was of the superclass.
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