Word: jargoning
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...sports models, and this year and next the curve will continue its comeback in at least three Detroit offerings. Last week Chrysler introduced the first of the new fastbacks, the Barracuda, whose startlingly different appearance is caused by a huge (14.4 sq. ft.), sloping rear window-"backlight," in Detroit jargon...
...medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
...Sengstaken tube was removed from the esophagus today at noon, and . . . there is no evidence of recurrent bleeding." The surgical jargon in the report on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, by distinguished doctors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, covered not only what had ailed the patient but also an ingenious device to relieve the trouble...
This satire of suburbia has a serious message: the commuter's jargon with its self-analysis and narcissism is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease...
...avoid jargon. Simple language makes the doctor more human, and keeps people from being intimidated by the 'magic' of medicine. Besides jargon is really only useful to people who want to be convincing but are afraid they won't be--it's a way to puff yourself...