Word: jargonizing
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...Today, such writing has largely withered on the branch. Certainly, there is no lack of popular nature books on the market, and most of them do their job well enough, alchemizing dense scientific jargon into prose digestible to the lay reader. The majority of today’s writer-activists, however, are in the mold of journalist Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Pollan lays out the case against modern agribusiness in a very persuasive, prescriptive way. But he still argues solely at the level of the intellect, and reason?...
...sums that are getting dumped on them, many recruiters scan and search the lot for keywords. Which means top-bracket-job seekers--some of whom may not have looked for a new gig in a decade or more--need to update their rsums with the jargon du jour that recruiters are looking for. For accountants, that means phrases like Sarbanes-Oxley, while marketers may need to add terms like search-engine optimization...
...Curriculum,” the news that the Harvard Medical School has dropped in rank below “some school in Baltimore” (i.e. Johns Hopkins) sends the faculty into a tizzy of reformation. Lyrics of popular songs are transformed into medical jargon, like in “Anatomist’s Got Back”: “When a girl walks in with an ischium-size waist / And a gluteus in your face / You get sprung, wanna pull off your glove.” In an anatomy class spoof on “Dancing with...
...students who are interested in English literature’s diverse origins and vast diffusions the ability to pursue that course of study.Unfortunately, the descriptions of the common-ground modules in the department’s proposal muddle the purity of the designers’ intentions. Littered with postmodern jargon, these “modules” become parodies of themselves. The idea of learning about the “arrivals” inherent in English writing is stimulating, but unless one is able to weed through terms like “embarrassment of riches” in order...
...these days because he's about to launch a new line of high-tech products that use only a fraction of the energy of traditional lighting. The oblong object he's holding is a table lamp. It's just one of 50-plus lighting fixtures (luminaries, in the industry jargon) in a new range based on the latest in digital light-emitting diode (LED) technology, which can produce a warm, white light that comes close to rivaling halogen lamps but uses only a fraction of the electricity. And, unlike traditional bulbs, there's no need to stock up on spares...