Word: jargonizing
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...these words aren’t pseudo-academic jargon for “I should be able to turn up my music because I like it.” (Ideally, then, I’d live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers...
...Washingtonians ... had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Vietnam veterans ... The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III ... in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans ... Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs ... Few incidents ... enraged the Vietnam Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Vietnam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof...
...shift in the economy that no one quite expected. There must be a mix-up here. We ordered a recovery, heavy on the jobs, please. What we're getting is a new kind of homeland insecurity powered by the rise of outsourcing, a bland yet ominous piece of business jargon that seems to imply that every call center, insurance-claims processor, programming department and Wall Street back office is being moved to India, Ireland or some other place thousands of miles away...
...KENNER, 80, scholar and critic who was a leading authority on such standard-bearers of literary modernism as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...questions at crew dinners that seem designed purely to facilitate the explication of the complicated sea terms for the audience. As the movie progresses, however, this pitch-perfectly played character becomes harder not to appreciate. Far from being a simple audience surrogate, Maturin is just confused by the technical jargon. As far as I could tell from the exposition, Maturin had been drafted onto the Surprise and, though he has become good friends with Aubrey during his time aboard, he still is out of his element...