Word: jargoning
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Perhaps the classic case of examination confusion resulted from an hour exam in a Social Relations course one year. A student not enrolled in the course decided to pass some spare time by taking the test, even though he knew nothing about "inter-personal" relations except the jargon. A grader obligingly corrected the blue-book and returned it with a C-plus and the comment: "Good ideas--somewhat undeveloped...
...their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
...great issues were debated at the top of men's voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state, innocence and authority-are far better expressed in the moral, oratorical, Biblical jargon of Melville than in the journeyman prose of Herman Wouk...
...needed that dictionary of "cat" jargon-if only to help me understand what my children are talking about. I deplore the senselessness of it all, sigh resignedly, and wish that today's bopsters would be more specific and less prolific...
...Majors is one said," the pamphlet continues, "have been able to speak together in their own particular jargon, but beyond the weather six, and athletic and social topics, the class as a whole has been without a community of intellectual interest or purpose...