Word: jargoning
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...from the Crimson to blow its own horn but in view of past matches and on glancing through the records of past years, the meet will probably be, in the jargon of the trade, a "push over". The score of last year's encounter, though at the time there were ominous murmurs of "gyp" and "we wuz robbed" arising from the Lampoon contingent, was carefully checked by a firm of Boston accountants and found to be 23-2 in favor of the official undergraduate organ. Dr. Worcester's office later issued an unofficial statement attributing the victory to clean living...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...
...consequently, the world is full of "smart writing." It is easy to arrest interest by the statement of extremes by pointing in humid, blesrre colors: every back writer known this. But what is the worth of all this dilettante writing which delights in dressing up half-truths in racy jargon and in tickling the fancy by turning commonplaces into paradoxes by standing them on their heads; the latter requires only a bit of sophistry which comes easily. For my part, I heartily disapprove of attempts of English instructors to develop easy, flippant writing, when such an endeavor requires the turning...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
...income to his colleagues of comparable distinction comes from newspaper writing. Coach Bible rejects offers of this kind on the ground that it would be "chiseling" sportswriters. He seems to enjoy golf, which he plays badly. He discusses football with his wife at the dinner table, carefully avoids football jargon in talking to his players...