Word: jargoning
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...Norman writes, referring to West’s 1993 bestseller that has sold more than 400,000 copies. “West is still capable of getting tangled in sentences of unnecessary complexity, but he does a better job making his points without resorting to distracting jargon...
Spokane is by no means the only project of its kind. It's easy to imagine that by the end of the decade most U.S. cities will exist beneath an invisible dome of wi-fi--"city clouds," in the jargon of the industry. Rio Rancho, N.M., has one, though not on the scale of Spokane's; ditto for Grand Haven, Mich. (see sidebar), as well as Lafayette, Louis and Cerritos in California. And bigger players are moving in all the time. Cook County, Ill., is planning a massive 940-sq.-mi. cloud that would light up all of Chicago. Philadelphia...
Perhaps the kindest compliment that can be paid to the film is that it is a low-budget combination of Office Space, with its portrayal of bitter, down-on-their-luck workers and token Indian engineer, and The Matrix, with its obtuse scientific jargon, pseudo-philosophical questions and green-tinted lensing. Problematically, the film lacks the wit or visual appeal of either film...
...will offer a two-day, 10-hour introductory wine tasting course. The trial program will feature a blindfolded testing of 30 varieties of wine in addition to classes in wine jargon and matching wines with food...
...friends? It’s true, during reading period, Cabot Library becomes a veritable motel, but nothing captures our passion for academics like the lunchtime debates and shouting matches that overflow from, say, “Justice” lecture into Annenberg Hall. Traditionally, academics use thousands of stuffy, jargon-filled journals to communicate their most obscure thoughts and discoveries, but the joy of college is the ability to air them over a good piece of chicken parm, free from abstruse prose and pompous lingo...