Word: jargoning
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...polo jargon, one notch short of perfect. For handicap purposes, rated players are graded each year by the polo association of each country on the basis of all-round performance, from zero goals...
Head-Scratching. As the trial lumbered on, the ideological gobbledygook of communism poured in full flood into the ears of Court and jury. Browder, among other things, was accused of the Communist sin of "tailism." "It sounds like some kind of special jargon," the judge said plaintively, and pleaded for an explanation of terms...
According to the theory, history is a succession of such changes in social systems. The changes occur because of "contradictions " (jargon for conflicts, struggles). The changes are not just the defeat of one of the forces in contradiction, but the evolution of something new, something different from both (this is the "dialectic"). The something new is always a step upward, the evolution by violent cross-breeding of a higher type of society...
...success. Its authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...
Second is the "work of art" school, and its, members are those who cast accusations at the literary historians. They iso'..te a work from its context and appraise its intrinsic value. Frequently these crities throw up a maze of technical jargon which only dampens the student's enthusiasm. They do, however, give him the tools with which he may articulate his opinions-the basis for genuine appreciation...