Word: jargoning
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...this point. By the time he reminds the reader of his original premise, we have lost the main idea. For example, he devotes the better part of a chapter to recapitulating the notions he put down in Krazy Kat, one of his previous works. While the reader floats in jargon and bygone culture, he misses the author's central concern, the lack of any stimulating media...
...ever expanding lexicon of corporate jargon you may now add "risk- sharing partnership." That's how Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz describes arrangements like the one between his company and Germany's Deutsche Airbus/ Deutsche Aerospace, which announced plans for a joint research effort last week. The risk the two giant jetmakers may share: development of a supersonic high-speed civil transport, an updated and larger Concorde-type airliner that could whisk 300 passengers at twice the speed of sound...
...stunning audit showed serious banking irregularities and criminal acts involving senior B.C.C.I. executives, trustees and bank directors that have been hushed up. The audit traced insider loans, with funds parked in Bahrain and Panama, and "drawdowns not supported by requests from the customers," which is accounting jargon for money moved out of accounts without documentation of any kind. Bank officials familiar with the audit and other internal B.C.C.I. documents reviewed by TIME confirm the Price Waterhouse findings...
...recent year-end issue, The Economist published an article titled "Modern English Debased," citing examples of incomprehensible jargon used in worlds of government, air travel, religion and, of course, academia...
...term "indirect cost," once merely bureaucratic jargon, has become a common phrase among higher education watchers. These issues have taken on crucial importance, as congressional leaders seek to clamp down on excessive spending of federal research dollars...