If you can talk big-picture in a way the client understands you might be far more valuable than someone who can only speak jargon.
"Poles have never come out against Jews "because they are Jews" but because Jews are dirty, greedy, mendacious, because they wear ear locks, speak jargon, do not want to assimilate, and ALSO because they DO assimilate, cease using their jargon, are nattily dressed, and want to be regarded as Poles.
Safer's now-legendary conversation with Jeff Koons about his piece "Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Two Dr J Silver Series, Spalding NBA Tip-Off)" became the prime example of what Safer called "art speak," jargon that Safer believed not even the speakers fully understood.
MPs find themselves speaking jargon, even if they do not mean to.
With judges, I spoke jargon, but during public exhibition, where I chatted with anyone who came up to me, I got creative when asked about my research.
No problem if you speak the jargon.
Most of its missions speak the jargon of development: poverty reduction, aggregate growth and structural adjustments.
The accused is effectively invisible, a bystander to the back-and-forth between judge, prosecutor and defence attorney, who speak in jargon that ordinary people do not understand.
Those who are now ranging up in opposition to Ms Mantel are probably the same people who complain about anodyne, obfuscating politicians, and business leaders who speak in jargon, and cliché-peddling sportsmen.
We speak in jargon that's a jumble of mixed metaphors – viruses, malware, trojans, zero days, exploits, vulnerabilities, RATs – that are the striated fossil remains of successive efforts to come to grips with the issue.
In a world in which scientists tend to speak in jargon, and where project managers default to bureaucratese, Stern, 57, a former Nasa associate administrator who is now at the non-profit Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, speaks in tweets, news alerts, soundbites, headlines and pull-quotes.
