Word: jargon
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...sense of bad meaning good, unconventional, daring, unfettered by social niceties.9. FM: Writing a pop science book is very different from writing a scientific article. Do you feel that you have to simplify your theories to make them bestsellers? Or conversely, for articles do you jargonize the intuitive parts of your theories to make them sound more scientific? SP: No, I think I don’t. I try as hard as I can not to simplify the ideas. I try to do two things: not use jargon so as not to exclude people just because they?...
...sadly common enough for students of literature who harbor a passion for philosophy to find their curiosity rebuffed by arrogant university departments. Obsessed with their private jargon games, these faculties dismiss other disciplines as dealing with “pseudo-problems” at best and, at worst, fanning the flames of irresponsible politics. But in the late Richard Rorty, we have a philosopher from the analytic tradition who became its Judas, who boldly addressed continental thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and writers like Proust, Yeats, and Nabokov...
...Portugal, which holds the rotating E.U. presidency, used a mix of sunny charm and unwavering commitment to end months of legal wrangling over the jargon-bound minutiae that often make the E.U. seem like a dense fog to many of its citizens...
...wooden unanimity of years past may have lessened slightly, but when Chinese President Hu Jintao opened the Congress with a jargon-laden two-and-a-half-hour speech he provoked a onslaught of minute, Kremlinological analysis that would have impressed Stalin. It was widely noted, for example, that Hu's predecessor and the purported head of a rival political faction, 84-year-old Jiang Zemin, pointedly looked at his watch no less than four times during the speech. Then again, it was equally widely noted that Jiang spent even more time admiring one of the young women charged with serving...
...morphine does it much better, some basic familiarity with the scientific answer.For the most part, the book keeps close to the boundary separating reference books, textbooks, and anecdotal history. Its content is broken into six parts, one of which is an introduction designed to provide an understanding of chemistry jargon to those whose last encounter with the subject came before their first high school date. The remaining five sections are broken down further by types of disease, spanning the spectrum from allergy to cancer to brain disease.“Molecules and Medicine” allots exactly one page...