Word: jargoning
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...most types of pollen grains is amazingly resistant to chemical action. For millions of years, pollen which has avoided destruction by becoming buried retains its original organic structure. Palynologists speak of fossil pollen in distinction to modern pollen. Your Science editor has tripped on a neat bit of jargon by substituting fossilized, meaning petrified, for fossil, meaning...
...archaeology a close second. As TIME'S Science researcher for the past four years, she has one professional reason for her preference. Looking up from her reference books, she observed gratefully that many archaeologists write a simple and understandable prose, and do not immediately lapse into incomprehensible technical jargon...
...story, Mrozek zeroes in on the absurdity of Communist hortatory jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...
...central difficulty in Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...
...book has one stylistic failing. The authors rely too heavily on sociological jargon; words such as ethos, anomie, and typology appear to often. Sometimes these terms clarify concepts that would otherwise be fuzzy and obscure, but frequently they merely make the writing ponderous and unnecessarily abstract...