Word: jargoning
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...went to Manhattan, took teachers' examinations and flunked in English grammar (Mr. Lewis still has to correct her speech). She tried writing short stories, then drifted into social work. She disliked it ("I loathe the social workers' jargon, the way they discuss people in case loads"). So she got a job addressing envelopes in the woman's suffrage headquarters in Buffalo, and that gave her the chance she wanted. Soon she was stumping all over upper New York State. She was husky and exuberant, she needed a cause, and the pay left her something to send home...
Concluded Planner Neylan: "Any suggestion which does not fit in with the conventional jargon of diplomats and the sabre-rattling of those who will not be in the front line trenches will be considered bizarre and Utopian...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...
...mistaken, most of the above come out of the English thieves' jargon; maybe I am mistaken...
...Reader Wentz is mistaken: Author Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis' juicy jargon comes straight out of Rabelais (Urquhart and Motteux's 17th-Century translation...