Word: jargoning
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...best popular book that has ever been written on the population crisis. This isn't to say there isn't a lot wrong with it. Brown is in the habit of writing a book a year; it shows. This one reads like transcribed dictation. It reflects phony-scientific jargon ("superaffluence") and is often simply inaccurate (the world has not run out of arable land, fish catches can be increased, perhaps even doubled.) The material is so sloppily organized that I had to skip back and forth through the book to prove to myself that all his ideas connected...
...cases have been attributed to pheochromocytomas and other tumors on the adrenal glands that cause overproduction of certain hormones involved in blood-pressure control. But all these conditions together probably do not account for more than 5% of hypertension victims. Most cases are described by doctors as "essential" -medical jargon meaning not that the condition is necessary or indispensable, only that its cause cannot be identified...
...avoid bringing in too much musical esoterica--he occasionally calls time out to explain such things as diminished seventh chords and the harmonic series, and then apologizes, saying "But you knew all that." But when he talks about linguistics the Young People's Concert atmosphere disappears and the jargon rolls in thick enough...
Often Bernstein seems to be using linguistic terminology simply because he likes the sound of it. The word "syntactical" appears in his discussions of music at apparently arbitrary intervals, and usually seems to mean something like "important." And when the available jargon is not enough, Bernstein makes up his own, including such unlikely hybrids as "morphosemantics." The result is that much of what he says about linguistics is not so much wrong as it is just empty...
This adamant nationalism and its obverse side of virulent anti-Communism are two pillars of Heitmann's description of the military's economic plans. At first the jargon seems to be that of a socialist. "Under the new constitution, enterprises will have a social role, and they will have to give workers participation in profits. Workers will also have a voice in management." "Workers are getting titles of property. Sixty per cent of the land now belongs to farm workers." "The policy of the government is that all strategic materials--oil, coal, copper--are going to be managed...