Word: jargonizing
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Wolfe had become disillusioned with Baker by this time, although the professor had made Wolfe his protege. Wolfe later described Baker, as a shallow man who used nothing but "glib and easy jargon...
...drive me nuts," he writes, unaware of the brattiness implied by such conjecture. Yet in the end, Eden Express is a painfully honest document of a life in transition. The shift is even evident in the book's style. The early pages contain the sort of hippie jargon that franchises experience into junk food for thought. But by the end, Vonnegut has found a truer, more subdued voice that reaches out of his agony and concern. It is not quite grace under pressure, but it is that necessary first step, growth under stress...
...professions have their jargon, but the language of academics, especially those in the social sciences, seems to lead farther and farther into forests of meaninglessness. An article in the Journal of Educational Psychology declared: "Both the black and white teachers studied emitted few reinforcements and those emitted tended to be traditional (distant reinforcers), although most teachers stated a preference for proximity reinforcers (material rewards and close personal contact)." It is Humpty Dumpty's gospel: "Impenetrability, that's what...
...been completely overlooked by modern linguists. His ignorance of the literature hurts him here--Henning Andersen, for one, has used a Peircean model of language acquisition in his work in generative phonology--and it hurts him everywhere he tries to argue on the linguists own turf. Percy adopts the jargon of the professionals and scholars without the sense, and ultimately he can only argue from his own intuitions about language...
...into an art museum. In San Francisco, a plant that once processed chicken feathers for pillow stuffing has been transformed into an office building. In Galveston, New Orleans, New York and scores of other U.S. cities, old buildings are being put to new uses. They are, in the current jargon, being recycled...