Word: jargonizing
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...face of a shrinking academic job market, GSAS initiated the six-week program to teach Ph.D.'s the "language and jargon of business," Martyn said...
...example, members of the huge (though declining) United Methodist Church, which began in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement, want clergy who are "open, accepting, self-critical, patient, participatory and exemplary." All are qualities involved with psychological jargon, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics. John Wesley, meet Dale Carnegie or Michael Murphy of Esalen...
...Princess Daisy, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified products ... made with wholistic, continuous-flow processes." Krantz goes for grand howlers: "Thank heaven they...
There are, of course, various types of editors in the game. At one extreme are the acquisition editors-"belly editors," in trade jargon-who do their most important work at lunch. There the menu and the contract may get a more careful reading than the manuscript. Then there are the creative editors, who see their task as the finding and overall shaping of a manuscript. Finally, there are the pencil editors, who work line by line on messy or complex manuscripts (although that chore is often left to copyreaders...
...History buffs should be diverted by the author's ability to mix notables, from Baron von Richthofen to U.S. Grant, like grains of sand in an hourglass. The greatest beneficiaries should be science fiction fans. For too long they have filled their shelves with charmless fantasies and technical jargon that talks to itself...