Sentence examples for odd jargon from inspiring English sources

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Though it sounds rather silly — like when you read the 2011 Davis Cup website headlined, "ITF revises its Davis Cup dead rubber policy" — this odd jargon remains in use.

An 11-year-old girl is sent to a psychiatrist who speaks to her in odd jargon ("the little erky-terk") and sounds dangerously like someone out of a fairy tale.

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SF: Be gentle with "lol" "katz" and the odd new jargons, patois and formulations that arise from the net.

It can be complicated and confusing, especially when people use odd phrases and jargon such as "graduate market".

Ignoring Victorian and Edwardian grammar and structure, he created a unique form of speech, employing odd and strange words, jargon, avoiding verbs, and using rhetorical devices such as parataxis.

The stuff sounds, well, a little odd to those not schooled in wine jargon -- "soaring aromatics of vanilla, minerals, coffee, blackberries, licorice and cassis".

It's odd, because elsewhere ­Teachout praises Armstrong for avoiding musical jargon when talking about his music.

Some business jargon made it in there too, as did the odd internet abbreviation.

"The campaign talks to young people as young people, cutting jargon and cliché and replacing them with irreverence and the odd joke," he told Buzzfeed.

10.35am GMT Slightly odd line of questioning from one MP, asking Carney to define various pieces of jargon.

Though she avoids linguistic jargon, some of her rules touch on interesting deeper issues.Take the first injunction, to avoid odd spellings.

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