Word: jargoning
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...those might be. Part of the problem, of course, is the nature of the war thus far. Most of it is taking place in the skies over Iraq, territory that is inaccessible to reporters. Confusion has also resulted from a mix of Pentagon obfuscation and reporters' unfamiliarity with military jargon and many technical details. It took nearly a week, for example, for the press to learn the definition of such terms as air superiority and the 80% success rate attributed to allied-bombing sorties...
...recent years scientists decided that dark matter is probably made of "cold" (in astronomical jargon, that means slow-moving) subatomic particles. According to theorists, dark matter would have formed sooner after the Big Bang than ordinary matter did. The dark matter would have created pockets of high density whose gravity would then have pulled in the later- forming ordinary matter. These pockets would eventually grow into galaxies, and many of the galaxies would drift together into clusters -- just the state of the universe today...
...been writing for more than 10 years, but before fourth grade, I didn't read anything that wasn't on the comic's page. After I moved up from Garfield--but before I ever read the famed deconstructionist Jacques Derrida--I was intrigued by Safire's dissection of political jargon and other cultural terms...
Most interventionists cheered Luce's appeal. But even some of them were disturbed by the missionary's son's missionary zeal. The Nation called Luce's program magnanimous but also smug and self-righteous. The Literary Magazine at his alma mater, Yale, called it "jingoistic jargon." Luce's favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, later wrote that the very title implied an "egoistic corruption...
...purposes. One is to test ideas for building outposts on other planets, where long stays would be common and resupply impossible. But Biosphere II is more than just the prototype of a space colony. It is a means of learning more about how the earth -- "Biosphere I," in project jargon -- sustains itself through the recycling of water, air and nutrients. Along the way, Space Biospheres Ventures, the company sponsoring the experiment, hopes to find ideas it can market, from air-purification technologies to new varieties of crops...