Mason Cooley Quotes

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

We are surrounded by hundreds of 'tribes,' each speaking their own distinct slanguage of colourful words, jokes and phrases that together form an idiosyncratic phrasebook, years in the making.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on.

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

Gobbledygook! [The word was born.]

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.