Jargon Usage Quotes

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

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.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.