Word: jargonizing
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...ground Hermenaut is seeking lies between the domain of “the serious scholar and the freelance hack journalist.” If Hermenaut is proud of its unusual approach to philosophical and cultural discourse, that stems partly from its distaste for how ideas are discussed in a jargon filled academy where the big picture sometimes gets lost. “Most of us are refugees from grad school,” notes Glenn, who was formerly a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Boston University. “We appeal to and rely on outsider intellectuals, people...
...heavily favored applicants with education degrees. School systems made it difficult for even the best-qualified career switchers to become teachers, often requiring them to spend a year or more obtaining master's degrees in education. The recruiters often seemed to care more whether prospective teachers could talk the jargon of "metacognition" and "kinesthetic modalities" than whether they could actually solve an algebra problem or explain cell division...
...their saris when census officials would give no quarter on gender and listed them as men. The country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were being marginalized because the poor and low-caste faithful could not claim "untouchable" status. And being a member of the "scheduled castes"?jargon for India's downtrodden?brings benefits, like privileged access to schools and a quota of government jobs. (Government officials at their most legalistic say Christians don't have castes.) The Parsis of Bombay, descendants of refugees from Iran and one of India's most influential business communities, were also incensed...
...people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written in the strained jargon of "modularity," "sequentiality" and "factuality" favored by critics in art magazines, is going to lift it into the same category of experience as a marble carving or a bronze...
...they can still get worse." Still, Arroyo has had a shadow cabinet since she quit Estrada's cabinet in October, and says she has big ideas for plugging the Philippines into the global economy. She talks about "structural reforms" and "a level playing field" - the kind of hip, business jargon that never escaped Estrada's lips. "Things can get better under us," she insists...