Word: jargoning
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...enemies of sanity are arming themselves. Their work is being conducted with utter secrecy, yet excessive drunken reflection has given Gubba the insight. Language, comrades, is being appropriated, and is about to pierce our studied equilibrium. The pincer movement runs as follows. On one side lies the debasing jargon of cinema advertising, which compels innocents to speak in triplets, with a amputated vocabulary. Soon the apocalypse will be upon us, and it will happen before morning class. You go to breakfast. Eggs and bacon await the edibility test...
...only after visiting my cousins in Israel, who were serving in the IDF at the time, that I discovered what, to use some social sciences jargon, the intervening variable...
According to Cornell professor of sociology Donald P. Hayes, scientific jargon is becoming more difficult to understand not only for non-scientists but for many scientists as well...
Angier agrees with Hayes that scientific jargon has an appeal to researchers, who often need to find new words to describe a small part of a larger problem...
...calls certain science papers "ridiculous," and jargon can also make her job--that of convincing her readers and editors that a given story is relevant to them--more difficult...