Word: jargoning
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...Latin for "foe,"' or Xegro jargon for a white person...
...20th century behavior back to its dark evolutionary beginnings, in language that is not only plainly comprehensible but richly poetic as well. In so doing, he has illuminated both the discoveries of the past and the confusions of the present. "Too often," says Eiseley, "a barbarous jargon separates the scientist from the rest of the world...
Author Gross writes a clumsy brand of English ("grizzly" for "grisly" is one of his more entertaining errors), but his book does suffering testees a service in exposing the statistical cheating and psychological fakery of their less scrupulous tormentors. Gross's attitude, in the jargon of the testers, is woefully low in "nurturance" (that is, he is unfriendly), and the reader, as he learns of the testers' nonsense, may feel his own nurturance running...
...Clubs & Jargon. The real bounce in the tape market is provided by home tapesters who like to do their own recording-either from radio broadcasts or from borrowed LPs (a $12 album can be put on tape costing about $4). Although recording from broadcasts is a definite copyright violation, the tapesters went at it even more vigorously last year, after the advent of FM-stereo broadcasting...
Shorebound Jargon. "I've been conforming since I was five," says Mandel's hero, Lieut, (j.g.) Samuel Marks. "That just about qualifies me as an organization man right there." Marks's organization man is anybody who will not rock the boat, either from fear of being noticed or hope of future pelf. But by the time Mandel is through with him, he has become a somewhat more complex conformist. At the outset Marks is a reservist with a wry eye for the shorebound "aye, aye" jargon of the peacetime Navy and a fondness for clean shirts...