The same is also true of those parts of vocabulary that are involved in fashionable slangs and jargons, whose raison d'être in promoting group, particularly age-group, solidarity depends on their being always fresh and distinctive.
Though it won't plunge the people of the world into a solipsistic abyss, it is a development like that of the "internet of things" – something which may appear superficially modish and insubstantial, a froth of gadgets and jargon – but whose possibilities to transform the social world are at least as profound as the internet wave of the last quarter century.
Or is it Microsoft, whose various sites have, in the jargon, the most "time spent"?
Or in the jargon: "empty speech acts, whose informational content refers to neither world nor self".
Artists and photographers whose work has been highlighted in Jargon books include Harry Callahan, R. B. Kitaj, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Robert Rauschenberg.
At The Wall Street Journal, where I used to work, a front-page story went through five editors whose chief task was to eliminate jargon.
But by doing so he has created in the jargon of marketing a product whose potential market is an English minority.
Mr. Polanco, 43, and Mr. Torres, 57, were hooked young and learned the trade — and its jargon — from the Jewish merchants whose mom-and-pop stores clothed generations of New Yorkers.
It calls its strategy "asset-right" as opposed to "asset-light"—industry jargon for franchising out or managing hotels whose bricks-and-mortar belong to someone else, often an individual or an investment fund.
Mr. Biglari's aggressive tactics — fire and brimstone couched in business-school jargon — invited some comparisons to another fabled investor, Carl C. Icahn, whose corporate rabble-rousing has given him the reputation of a raider.
