Word: jargoning
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Scientists are, after all, working counter to millions of years of evolution. The basic goal of gene therapy is to take bits of DNA that did not originate in patients' bodies, insert them into the patients' tissue and somehow get them to turn on or, in the jargon of the field, "express" themselves. Yet this is precisely the sort of biological action that the body's immune system interprets as a threat and is primed to fight...
Barbara J. Fields '68 said the English language has been corrupted by the metaphoric use of business and sports jargon, in the opening lecture of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture series entitled "Humane Letters: The Art and Duty of the Word...
Jamison was not, in the paradoxical jargon of psychiatry, a "successful" suicide. But it took years for her to accept the fact that she had to stay on medication. What really saved her life, she says, was psychotherapy. In an age that believes drugs alone can defeat disease, Jamison remains a staunch supporter of what Freud called "the talking cure." "Lithium moderates the illness," she observes, "but therapy teaches you to live with...
...division of the DIA will be given a bland name: the Defense Humint Service (humint is spy jargon for human intelligence -- that is, information collected by agents on the ground). The CIA will oversee the intelligence targets of this new branch of agents. "They'll send a lot of guys out who just look like military men in suits," sniffed one veteran cia officer. Still, the military's spy operations have delivered crucial intelligence to the Pentagon in the past...
Nelson said his response to this type of political jargon was that, "jobs are inextricably dependent upon the environment...