The conference will be chock full with academic jargon and sagely nodding eggheads, but it is all free. |
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In my opinion, this new language used by Internet users is essentially Internet chatterers' jargon. |
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In the jargon of transport planners, there has occurred a substantial modal shift in transportation in these cities. |
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Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages. |
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Although it is possible to read his poems without needing specialized jargon or poetics, his writing is full of erudition and learning. |
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Ask a financial market dealer or analyst, and a spray of impenetrable jargon appears. |
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It misfires because almost every page of it is weighed down by nearly impenetrable academic jargon. |
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Thus, the initiated are separated by high fences and impenetrable jargon from the ordinary folk. |
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No detail is spared and the squeamish can count on skipping huge wodges of forensic jargon, which is no bad thing. |
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Lay persons shouldn't be expected to understand medical jargon or complex terminology. |
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With much success he walks a fine line between scholarly jargon and patronizing colloquialism. |
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Avoid those who try to conceal what they are doing, tell you it's too complicated or use confusing and unnecessary jargon. |
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Far too often today historical works are churned out in unreadable academic jargon. |
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When I'm writing I often start out with abstractions and academic jargon, and purge it. |
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He wanted people who could pick up on irony, nuance and jargon, and he also wanted the technologists to hurry up. |
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We've seen through their blue-sky jargon, bullet-point presentations and efforts to squander public money on flights of fancy. |
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But also you have to get rid of this free-trade rhetoric and jargon, because it's kind of a religious devotion to the notion of free trade. |
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Their definitions are often very interesting, and perhaps were supposed to create some oasis in the dense dryness of the technical jargon. |
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Also, it's riddled with small print and jargon, which means that it's practically incomprehensible to the everyday punter. |
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Mind you, the site has given me new insight into the jargon of the loveless. |
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First, the book is loaded with the technical and markedly inelegant jargon of postmodern philosophy. |
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But it has the same class, aromatic piquancy, and absence of jargon in treating so specialised a theme. |
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She deploys their concepts flexibly and insightfully to enrich the book's content without encumbering its style with jargon. |
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Cutting through all of the government verbiage and jargon, if you will, what is the impact over the next five years? |
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The Commission liked my theory well enough to bury it in political doublespeak and jargon and call it their own. |
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Americans, in particular the US military-industrial complex, are masters of jargon and circumlocution, but they can't be blamed for everything. |
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Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism. |
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So I'm going to try again, this time with some charts to help illustrate the jargon. |
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But industry likes to badge its products with lots of jargon that does make it very difficult for a consumer to understand. |
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Pretty soon, she had learnt all the tricks of the game along with the jargon! |
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He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity. |
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In fact ask any management specialist, from any sector, to exclude every word of jargon from a conversation, and there is likely to be silence. |
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I also get the sense that some lawyers think baffling legal jargon and tortured syntax will impress their clients. |
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It was tough to get through the blurred definitions as he was using the design press jargon. |
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Bunett's prose is often loaded with arty jargon and heavyweight expressions that are virtually incomprehensible. |
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Who speaks the most gibberish, the worst jargon, the most twisted English and the biggest pile of gobbledegook? |
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Regrettably, this draft constitution, which is replete with jargon and undefined terms, fails to heed that lesson. |
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The aim is to demystify subjects and there is an emphasis on moving away from professional jargon and universal objectivity. |
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I read with the greatest appreciation those contributions that were not heavy with academic jargon. |
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Sometimes the girls tried to read them, but they were all in jargon, or gobbledygook. |
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Trust and verify is drill jargon for reminding yourself to check the gun and see that it is not loaded. |
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He eschews technical jargon and any pretence of omniscience, providing instead an intimate, heartfelt account of his experiences. |
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Global tagging and aggregation is great if you're a non-expert trying to find resources on a subject where you don't know the jargon. |
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The London-based comic created his life coach alter-ego to satirise the world of self-help and corporate jargon. |
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His use of obscure jargon underscored the urgent need for secrecy and discretion. |
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The correct mix of important looking fonts, jargon and shiny paper combining to give the illusion of authenticity. |
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They write in plain English, without jargon, and distill lengthy statements into clear, concise tables understandable at a glance. |
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Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail. |
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He was political to his fingertips, but immensely wary of political jargon. |
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Some theologians have a positive genius for cloaking sensible ideas in impenetrable jargon. |
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Neither cinema's guileful cultural artifacts nor the somnambulistic, moribund jargon that unpacks them know anything about that. |
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Make sure you fully understand every step of the building process and don't let jargon put you off. |
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Remember your international visitors by avoiding regional word usage or technical jargon that could alienate. |
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If you don't have the patience to wade through the jargon, just directly go to the last page. |
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His invitation to the applicant to put an application under section 38 of the Evidence Act is couched in legal jargon, not in plain words. |
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But yesterday the Government's response was said to be so full of difficult wording and jargon that it was impossible to know what it said. |
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The industry jargon that rolls off his tongue is that of a consummate marketer. |
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Some visitors to your website may be from outside your industry and may not understand some of the jargon or acronyms. |
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Punters can also run a sweepstake with their own special online kit, learn the jargon of racecards or unravel the mysteries of the tic-tac man. |
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I don't think he is looking for handouts, just someone to shine a path for him through all the jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo. |
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Sitting in a boiling hot and cramped drafting room, the early discussions suffered from the self-same problem of woolly jargon. |
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Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin. |
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It is all designed to be comprehensible, even if you do not understand IT jargon or technology. |
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It is simple to follow and will not confuse the reader with complicated jargon or difficult concepts, yet its potential benefits are large. |
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Appraisal is not a load of meaningless jargon sprinkled liberally across a ten page grid full of interminable tick boxes. |
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It is banal, orotund, unmusical, and stuffed with wads of unnecessary jargon. |
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In modern educational jargon, leadership is taken to be a transferable skill. |
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As dichotomies go, there's a pretty huge one between the jargon of media studies theory and the language actually spoken in the modern newsroom. |
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Though for the most part politically left of center, they refuse to abide by the heavy jargon of correct political thinking. |
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One of the joys of following English soccer is learning some of its delightful jargon. |
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I wallowed in bindings and leathers and fonts, in all the lovely jargon of the trade, half-titles, colophons, blind stamping, foxing, black letter, washed leaves and cancels. |
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The document is loaded with jargon, long paragraphs, and run-on sentences. |
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The revolving flux of idiosyncratic secondary characters, caught up in counterinsurgency jargon, is also at times distracting. |
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Except for chapter 3, the prose is exceptionally lucid with little jargon. |
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With a name full of jargon jive and a cast of unknown comedians and aspiring actors, this marketed as a hip urban comedy sounds like a prescription for disaster. |
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No sooner does the Consultant Debunking Unit dip its toe back into the waters of consulting-speak than it stumbles onto jargon that turns out to be all wet. |
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For those new to computers, our comprehensive Computer Beginners area will cut through the junk, jargon and technology to tell you what's what in plain English. |
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Many hospitals, for instance, make a professional available to go over the records with the patient, who might not understand the medical jargon therein. |
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The substitution of a clear word for euphemistic jargon is found in all forms of manufactured communication, but is perhaps most often used by the military. |
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Nuclear jargon has evolved into a code that is indecipherable to the layman. |
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As I say, there's a lot of jargon and bureaucratic gobbledygook here. |
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Above all, she felt, there was a more pressing need for it than ever before, with jargon steadily taking over the world. |
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Most customers who walk into a mall to buy a PC come out seeing stars by the time they're out thanks to the overload of technical jargon that is thrown at them. |
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Not knowing what to make of this strange jargon, I was uncertain as to what kind of music would soon be blaring out of the powerful-looking speakers being tinkered with. |
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Otherwise his book is refreshingly free of theoretical cant or jargon, despite some nostalgia for a Marxist perspective and a deference to critics like Lukacs. |
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The medical jargon was over my head, so I personally hired an endocrinologist and he walked me through the records. |
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Behind all the financial jargon, basically what the meeting was about was how to tax some of the mobile capital that's bouncing around the global economy. |
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Film-making, like any other profession, relies on a mishmash of creative terms, jargon and technospeak, allowing effective communication between cast and crew. |
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Critical of unnecessary obscurity and jargon of modernist discourse, post-modernism has created a paralleled obscurity of hermeneutics, deconstruction and textual nihilism. |
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I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis. |
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It has become car industry jargon to describe the drivetrain and floorpan of a monocoque car, especially when the layout is shared across several different models. |
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Amongst anthropological jargon, there is little mention of the taste bud and its evolution. |
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The impenetrable jargon of much postmodern writings is an issue as well. |
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Lots of fields have their own jargon that is impenetrable to outsiders. |
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Music industry insiders tend to litter their conversation with talk of turnover, market share and the impenetrable jargon of contract negotiations. |
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Sheltered from reality in the public circus, these people seriously believed that their complicated jargon would be understood by the average shmuck on the street. |
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Secondly, and connectedly, it is an attempt at absolute relinquishment of the vantage of a particular sector, class, dialect, jargon, idiolect or diction. |
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It's unfortunate that the commonality of social interaction relies on the implied tone of voice through emojis, emoticons, textual jargon and caps lock. |
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As fluent in drug trade jargon as Martian, Future peppers his lyrics with interstellar imagery befitting of his far out vocals. |
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His report says the Crown Office left the Chhokars in the dark by failing to provide an interpreter, and sending the Chhokars untranslated letters full of legal jargon. |
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And it retains aristocratic liveries, a ceremonial jargon derived from Norman French and a strict code of manners that can be traced to the laws of chivalry. |
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We have a photo gallery, an index of every article published from 1956 to present, and a list of aviation terms, acronyms, initialisms and jargon. |
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Financial jargon is becoming a thing of the past due to IFSRA's efforts to educate consumers and encourage the financial industry to speak in plain English. |
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Since many commuters do not understand the BMTC's jargon of stage, often, conductors collecting the fare become the target of their ire and abuse. |
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Each beat has its own language, a vocabulary of terms, a collection of jargon, a way of describing things that you must master but not allow to be limiting. |
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Cold and clinical to the point of boredom, filled with emotionless commentary and business jargon, it was difficult to tell what effect this character was meant to have. |
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They have used words and jargon that ordinary people can't understand as a way of preserving and extending their power while excluding the vast majority of the population. |
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Lord Woolf's challenge to the legal profession comes after he replaced the traditional trappings of Latin phrases and legal jargon as part of a review of civil courts. |
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I don't understand all the technical jargon, but do agree with the general gist of maintaining freedom of communication outside the oppression of big business monopolies. |
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Memos and reports are often couched in bureaucratic language and jargon. |
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Even if someone was formal with him, they would have to be familiar with biochemical jargon and terminology, or Edward would act condescendingly to them. |
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Yet how, in this age of protean trends and indecipherable jargon, are we to draw the line? |
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It contains over 250,000 words and phrases, including jargon and proper nouns such as geographic locations and historical persons. |
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Known in medical jargon as acrochordons, skin tags are very common and occur most often after midlife. |
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At the same time he does not belabor the point unduly or burden the reader with excessive academic jargon and hairsplitting. |
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With their super-formal tone and heavy use of jargon, legal documents are renowned for their pomposity. |
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A further test for the reader is the abstruse jargon of the netherworld of these nano-terrorists. |
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The document is written in the usual council jargon but one section makes for gallows humour reading. |
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But while Xena wears a leather basque and wields a chakram she speaks in the slacker jargon of the shopping mall. |
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Readers shouldn't be intimidated by the lofty concepts or multisyllabic genetics jargon, though. |
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As used today, channeling is a vestige of New Age jargon that has taken on a general, nonspiritual, unpsychic meaning. |
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Get even remotely near to an answer and they revert to their gobbledygook jargon. |
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Confusion about internet jargon is the second biggest disincentive for people in that age group to log on to the web. |
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Who criticizes the New England Journal of Medicine for its Latinate jargon, fancy statistics, and clinical exposition? |
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The term jargon has also been used to refer to pidgins, and is found in the names of some pidgins, such as Chinook Jargon. |
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Consequently, I am sensitive to any attempt to twist, alter or modify it through street jargon, high-tech babble or mindless bureaucratese. |
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It is for this reason they are often referred to, in industrial jargon, as clevises. |
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I asked the doctor to give me my diagnosis in English, not medical jargon. |
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In mathematical jargon, the derivative is a linear operator which inputs a function and outputs a second function. |
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The mind-numbing jargon used by hedging practitioners often can stupify the uninitiated. |
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This is known as close air support, or cas, in military jargon. |
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Malariologists have an inordinate fondness for jargon, which has infected mosquito specialists, too. |
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The jargon of the areas is distinguished from that of Kent in certain words. |
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Many leaders hide behind buzzwords, shoptalk and B-school jargon. |
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If the point of fannish jargon is to be exclusionary, why is there the matching fannish jargon of 'eofan' for long-established old-timers? If anybody would get it, they would. |
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Finally, don't be confused by the jargon of isotonic and hypotonic. |
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Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it. |
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His jargon of slang was a continuous joy and surprise to them. His gestures, his strange poses, his frank ribaldry of tongue and principle fascinated them. |
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An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms. |
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In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism. |
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I listened carefully, but the technical jargon went over my head. |
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Complex jargon may confuse people who try and follow what happens. |
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Writer John Morton has skewered the tedious corporate jargon spouted by management bumblers and over-excited editorial floor skivvies with delicious ruthlessness. |
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As sandpaper is pushed across wood, the abrasive grains dig into the surface and cut out minute shavings, which are called swarf in industry jargon. |
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The information isn't necessarily new but is so concisely put and chockful of information without jargon that few could turn away from it in confusion. |
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Noise can include the use of jargon, use of particular words, volume of speech, having an accent, using the wrong body language or using the wrong medium. |
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By ditching the psychobabble jargon and focusing in on the meat. |
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It is Chinook Jargon which Klassen is writing about, not Chinook, by the way. |
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Jargon is used to put up a smokescreen, hiding principles which are well within the grasp of the average citizen. |
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Jargon is a big problem in medical informatics and must surely contribute to doctors' dislike of technology. |
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Once the language of trade, then the working class, Chinook Jargon is now seldom heard, save for ceremonial usage. |
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In Kamloops, a newspaper called the Kamloops Wawa was published in Chinook Jargon using the wawa writing. |
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The annual Chinook Jargon Workshop is one good way to reach more potential speakers of Chinook. |
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This project involved several Chinook Jargon speakers and linguists translating the letter from their own perspectives. |
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To get you started, here are a few of the more familiar Chinook Jargon words with brief comments. |
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Chinook Jargon is a pidgin based primarily on Chinook and Nuuchanulth that served as a trade language throughout the Pacific Northwest. |
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Jargon can be seen in a positive way, enabling communication within a specialised subject. |
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Therefore the Chinook Jargon evolved into a working language that allowed the many ethnic groups to communicate with each other and work together. |
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Jargon is a kind of SHORTHAND that makes long explanations unnecessary. |
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In order to communicate, people adopted Chinook Jargon, a pidgin or hybrid language. |
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Between the use of Chinook Jargon and the increased presence of English, the number of speakers of indigenous languages dwindled. |
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British Columbian English has several words still in current use borrowed from the Chinook Jargon although the use of such vocabulary is observably decreasing. |
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