After a European Union directive obliged European telecoms companies to "unbundle the local loop"—jargon for granting rival firms access to the copper wires running into homes and offices prices for fixed-line telephone calls fell in Germany by more than anywhere else in Europe.
When possible, we also participated in an internet-based demonstration of each system so we could become familiar with local jargon and system capabilities.
Malapropisms abound in "Wives" and the English language is hacked, misconstrued and near buried under the jargon of the local gentry.
At a recent public meeting, Mr Laguna vowed to work hand in hand with the "people's power"—chavista jargon for the local communal council, a form of grass-roots organisation the president has devised to replace "bourgeois" institutions.The extra attention from Caracas could be welcome.
WikiLeaks said they showed that American and allied forces there had colluded in (or at least not stopped) the torture of Iraqis by the local authorities.The mass leaks of terse, jargon-ridden fragments of reporting from the battlefield form a mostly confusing mosaic.
While working at the store he sold many supplies to the local Native Americans and learned some Chinook jargon from them.
