Word: jargoning
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During the fracas, CB Fan Johnny Bench used radio jargon to downplay the importance of short wave in baseball. Said Bench: "It still comes down to the fact that someone has to throw the ball, someone has to hit it, and someone has to catch it. Do you copy, good buddy?" In the 1976 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds proved that they throw and hit and catch well enough to be copied into baseball lore...
This is academic jargon that may be best translated as "I'm too tired to write as well as I used to. " /?. Z. Sheppard
...required every week that, when returned, would be scrutinized by classmates and edited and reworked repeatedly. The class teacher practiced a unique style analysis that forced students to examine classical subjective literature, calculating the number of times each part of speech was used, making students aware of undesirable loose jargon and grandiose tendencies in much specialized work. Style analysis, former head section man for the option, Martin Robbins, said, forced the students to review their grammar and brought them closer to absorbing the gestures of each writer's style...
...lower group expos course his freshman year, and then voluntarily enrolled in the upper-level journalism option his sophomore year. "If I could have taken the course three times, I would have," Wade said. "I think the course improved my writing skills 100 per cent. We learned to recognize jargon, get rid of cliches and verbosity, to make writing tighter, and to write under pressure. Even my letter writing to friends improved. All of a sudden the English language made sense...
...principles are essential for every student who writes, but the label "journalism' here is like a red flag." Robbins said. "There's no course at Harvard where they can get the basic writing skills they'll need for any field they pursue. Political scientists spend four years writing the jargon, lingo and cliches they read in textbooks. A semester is all any good writer needs to learn to clear up ambiguity and imprecision...