Word: jargoning
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...Terrible equivocation . . . pious religious jargon . . . long-winded double-talk . . ." With these epithets an Episcopal minister defied the rules of his church and sprayed scorn upon his bishops' attempt to guide their faithful...
...prepared by the Episcopal House of Bishops at its meeting in Dallas last month. Canon law demands that within one month after it has been received, a pastoral letter must be read in each of the denomination's 7,500 parishes. But the "sheer mediocrity" of the "ecclesiastical jargon," protested Protestant Miller, made it necessary for him to disobey...
...when it spoke for itself and needed no explanation. Now vision is verbalized, and the honest artist is out of fashion-and out of luck. I might suggest that $30,000 for a mess of refuse from the town dump is a high price to pay for jargon. Happily, the wheel will turn...
...supplies the rest, in a pattern so skillfully simple, informal and clear that it slides readily even into the nonexpert mind. "Increasing productivity" turns into "a bigger output per man per hour." "Discount rate" becomes "borrowing rate." Rather than indulge in bafflegab, Sylvia takes a paragraph to explain the jargon...
...being happily human, he was able to write well and perhaps importantly (The Horse's Mouth, Mister Johnson) without borrowing from the jargon of psychiatrists or social workers, without trying to change the world or tinkering with the essential nature...