Word: jargoneers
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...hear a good deal of jargon from other women--talk about women's "special needs," the necessity for "role models," the value of "resource people," the usefulness of "support structures." Admittedly offensive language--it accounted for the overnight conversion of many women to a pro-merger, anti-Radcliffe stance--but put into different words, these phrases describe a reality for women at Harvard...
...uses this jargon seriously will go so far as to say that women in general have "special needs," but they are saying that it is unnecessarily tough to be a woman at Harvard, that Harvard is a sexist institution--and not because everyone seems to experience some sort of warped male/female relationship here...
...bottom of nightclub bills and bemoaned the state of their business. All were afflicted with the magician's disease: ancestor worship. Gone was the golden age, they sighed. Television had consumed their best acts; film had taken the magic out of life. They spoke in the jargon of the trade: there were no tricks, only "effects"; a disappearing object was a "vanish"; a suddenly appearing object was a "production"; a nimble-handed move was a "sleight." The masters of all these effects and sleights had vanished. Houdini, who could get out of a steel coffin, could not escape from...
...straight" world that incarcerated them, prisoners have developed an argot that few outside of jail could hope to understand. Thus, for new volunteers who work with prisoners, the New York State Department of Correctional Services recently compiled a pamphlet that included half a dozen pages of current "inmate jargon." A sampling of some of the more colorful terms...
Many of those terms will soon be outdated, of course, if they are not already. The very existence of the pamphlet threatens them. If every volunteer understands what convicts are saying, the inmate neologist will simply invent new jargon to remain different from the straights. For some prisoners, that's a number one Jones they do not want to kick...