Word: jargoning
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...perhaps as satisfactory a course in Robinson Crusoc economics as can be found. If furnishes that whole set of "tools of analysis," of sweeping assumptions and jargon, which the student will find indispensable ballast as he goes on in economics. The non-concentrators, however--and by requirement of the Division they are numerous in the course--are left with their tools in mid-air, without the slightest hope of ever touching the ground of reality. To carry out its dual function with justice to all, Ec A could profitably use more case material, and risk an occasional reference to government...
...evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation...
...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...
...Said he: "Let us have an end to such phrases as 'consideration should be given to the possibility of carrying into effect,' such terms as 'The receipt of your communication is hereby acknowledged with thanks.'" The Manchester Guardian promptly dubbed the Prime Minister "Jack the Jargon Killer...
...wonderful for Afrikanders suddenly to hear No. 10 Downing St. talking not top-drawer English but such familiar jargon as trek and laager (a camp bulwarked at night by a circle of covered wagons...