Word: jargoning
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TIME generally avoids slang and jargon and feels gutter language is best left there. Among discouraged words are cop and kid. Also scowled upon are clich�s--nothing should become a household name--and the likes of "tantamount to" and "may well," "arguably" and "recently." (One of the managing editor's most sweeping suggestions, arguably, was: "Approach with caution any word that ends with ly.") For consistency, numbers below 13 are always spelled out, and contractions are avoided, except in quotations. Particularly troublesome are transliterations from such languages as Chinese, Russian and Arabic. In TIME, Libya's leader is Gaddafi...
...West Germany received a 2� page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
...that is needed to play this lucrative game is mountains of borrowed money--or leverage, in financial jargon--which lenders seem eager to provide. A record $10.8 billion was spent to take companies private in 1984, vs. just $636 million in 1979. This year's pace is even more furious...
...this modern preparation and consumption of chocolate that truly interests Rosenblum. From contact-period Mesoamerica, he jumps to present-day France, where chocolate makers like Patrick Roger and Jacques Genin compete to prepare chocolate that is artistic as well as delicious. Rosenblum also introduces the jargon of chocolate—for instance, a palet d’or is a standard square of chocolate, a couverture is its covering, and the word couverture also applies more generally to all fine chocolate...
...Using the word ‘balance’ is kind of an internal jargon that we use here in the newsroom,” she said. “What it means really is looking for another voice out there...