Jargon Quotes

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

The deliberate introduction of distortion and fuzziness to improve the competitive position of one's own agency or division is an unavoidable and dominant feature of the bureaucratic landscape

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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.

Gobbledygook! [The word was born.]

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

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

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, 'It's called a...' and I'm like, 'Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.'

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.