Word: jargoning
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HAVE YOU EVER written a line into a paper just because it agrees with the professor's thesis? Ever repeat jargon and buzzwords from lecture in your assignments just to sound like you know what you are talking about and can get rewarded with a little check mark in the margin? Ever use literary or historical theories because your teaching fellow likes them even though you fundamentally disagree...
...HAVE A MILLION more examples of this selling out in my own papers. I'm sure other people do too. Even in this article, I have structurally decomposed one of my own sentences and used empty jargon which is, in itself, selling...
...technical jargon, Ancel explains her theorem as follows: "Given a surjective continuous transformation from a circle to itself, every aperiodic interval...
This illusion, largely abandoned by European intellectuals, remains dogma in American academe, and one quails to think what torrents of Marxist catalog cant might have drowned this exhibition if it had been done in the U.S. But there is little jargon in the catalog of "Age of the Metropolis" and none in the show itself; it is an intelligent wide-screen movie, generous in spirit, provocative and full of good things...
...would go to the freshman tea from time to time," Mackay-Smith says. "I liked the atmosphere, a nice low-key environment--I speak in jargon these days--to meet the community of freshmen...