Word: jargoning
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...nationwide freight carriers. "May I have your attention, please," an amplified female voice will vibrate through the room. "Anybody with a reefer interested in going to New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, please come to the desk." What a driver hauls depends partly on his truck. "Reefer" is jargon for a semi that carries refrigerated items, flatbeds tend to be for shop machinery, a dry box hauls everything else...
...from the veterans' section of the town cemetery only 100 feet away. Police quickly ringed the thrice-decorated ex-Marine at a safe distance, but, recognizing they were dealing with a crazed man, held their fire. Imaginatively, the police shouted back and forth with their own improvised military jargon: "A Company is located over there. B Company has been pulled back. C Company will move in." They pleaded with him to surrender. Perplexed, Coughlin, who had been high on drugs and alcohol the previous day, stood up and shouted, "Kill...
...routine is familiar to virtually everyone who has ever checked into a hospital. Almost as soon as the patient slips into a hospital gown, he or she faces the standard diagnostic assault. Aptly known in medical jargon as the admission battery, it includes such procedures as a chest X ray, electrocardiogram, blood-cell count, blood-chemistry analysis, venere al-disease test and urinalysis...
WARNING! the first page of the first issue shouted in January 1977. RAPE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE WILL BE PUNISHED! The declared policy of the editor-reporter-printer is to "expose and ridicule examples of jargon, faulty syntax, redundancy" and any "outrage against English" practiced by Glassboro State memo writers, especially those in high places...
...behind hospital walls. But Estroff, a post doctoral fellow in psychiatric anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, probed a different world. She is the first live-in scientific observer to spend an extended period with a growing new cadre of mental patients: those who have been, In psychiatric jargon, "deinstitutionalized." Now totaling as many as 500,000 across the U.S., these are mental patients who are regarded as sufficiently good risks to be allowed to dwell in the community at large, yet remain under professional care as psychiatric outpatients...