Word: jargoning
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...mingle ideas from psychoanalysis and economics and enrich the result with literary references from Tolstoy, Samuel Butler, Virginia Woolf, Castiglione, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Kathleen Winsor, E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Cervantes, Jack London and James Joyce. His books are relatively free of academic jargon, because there is no special lingo that the economists, sociologists and anthropologists have in common; anybody who wants to talk to all of them has to use English...
Dispensing with the jargon of professional economists, Dwight Eisenhower last week issued an economic report to the nation that began bluntly with one of the biggest pieces of news since V-E day. "The paramount fact about the economy at midyear," he wrote, "is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt." Two big specifics...
...Besides, Britain was anxious for a settlement. War Secretary Antony Head was flown in from London, given great latitude in negotiating, and told to get a settlement. Both sides began some fast compromising. Finally they initialed what was called a "Heads of Agreement," a new bit of British diplomatic jargon for agreement in principle. It provides that...
...find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business. The hobbyists, who trudge out of stores with boards balanced on their shoulders, have also added a new phrase to retail jargon: "The shoulder trade...
...after his break with the party, to one "Jake," Inslerman's New York contact. Felix, in characteristic underground fashion, copied the letter before delivering it. He had lost part of his notes. What remained was garbled by wear and tear, and much of it was in underground jargon. It read...