Word: jargoning
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Chemistry men at Harvard are creatures apart. All day long, they are withdrawn from the outside world into the mysterious Oxford Street workshop, and even when they emerge at dusk, it is to gather in groups and talk their strange, unintelligible jargon. And even then, their thoughts are in their test-tubes, for they have a passionate, all-consuming devotion to their work...
...young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage fright or obsequiousness, Critic Friedenberg took these elder bulls of science sternly by the horns, warned them that they had better mend their talk...
Young Mr. Friedenberg advised U. S. scientists to try to write prose instead of jargon, to be literate instead of literal. "The newspapers," said he, "are doing an excellent job in informing the public of the latest scientific happenings. My quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command...
...There is a style in educational jargon to which certain non-original souls adhere as slavishly as some women follow the changing style of hats," Marsh declared at the 75th anniversary celebration of Massachusetts State College...
Jimminy Crickets ! TIME, please do not let a smart-alecky "future admiral" take you for a sea jaunt [TIME, Feb. 21]. "W. T. Door"-water-tight door in seagoing jargon...