Word: jargonizing
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Alas, few practitioners of gender studies are equipped to handle the questions they ask. But academic jobs in English are hard to come by these days. And, an entire industry has arisen to promote gender theory. Mimicking the jargon is a painless and politically correct way of building a resume...
...jargon fiend: deconstructionism, New Criticism, revisionism, structuralism, post-modernism, existentialism, your-mamaism: the jargon fiend knows them...
...movie (and play) demonstrate throughout an irreverent playfulness with language as if it were an assumed meaningless jargon. Spacey's Mickey clarifies the distinction between "flip" and "sarcastic"; Chazz Palmenteri's actor-99.44 percent consisting of repressed fury--seeks some solace in the exact conceptual phrasing of "karma"; and then there's Eddie's kabbalistic Merriam-Webster romp. Some bits are even a little reminiscent of a Coen screenplay, the way the guys repeat and throw this or that phrase around like an exotic football...
...interview him I'd like to know. =@)" Admittedly, the "B4" and "=@)" were lame and unnecessary--I was towards the end of a brief and disastrous experimental period with special e-mail shorthand and parenthetical-math sign-smiley faces. But the electronic response did not critique this visual jargon; instead, what I received was a nasty and merciless attack on my cultural skills and knowledge...
...Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of this semester's Historical Study A-18, "Science and Society in the 20th Century," recognizes this mode of communication. "The word had gotten out that I was good. You know, the e-mail jargon...