Word: jargoning
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...language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the Arts and Sciences." And, in the famed Letter of the Academy to Cardinal Richelieu, the members proposed "to cleanse the language from the impurities it has contracted in the mouths of the common people, from the jargon of the lawyers, from the misusages of ignorant courtiers and the abuses of the pulpit...
...this time, there came a book from the publishers* which is, in the jargon of journalism, "of great news value."The book is written in a style that is distinctive of the "Gentlemen with a Duster." It champions Conservatism against both Liberalism and Socialism, and in so doing the language is direct, conclusive, partisan, brilliant. It is, or seems to be, a thousand pities that the author failed to include such Conservative personalities as Lord Curzon and the Duke of Devonshir. The dusting of these gentlemen might have disturbed the atmosphere at Westminster, convulsed the author with literary sneezes...
...term " kilocycle " will eventually supplant " wavelength " in the jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...
...written in the vernacular, as it should be. Academic jargon is not vernacular; neither is cheap slang. Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech...
...Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above the shrewd cataloguing of the minutiae of vulgarity. And too much reliance is placed on phonetic reproduction of the Pinney jargon...