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Jargon [French, Prob. Of Imitative Origin] : Language and Linguistics
245 words, approx. 1 pages
1 Language which is inaccessible to non-specialists. Jargon entails an extended and terminologically normalized vocabulary, and correspondingly different uses of morphological rules, e.g. compounds, special prefixed forms, foreign words, technical...
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Jargon : The Primary English Curriculum
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Jargon is those words and phrases used by all trades and professions as a shorthand way to describe or refer to technical matters. It can be used to communicate quite complex concepts, conditions or actions swiftly in a work context. Of course it can...
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Slang and Jargon Summary
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Slang terms in the drug subculture are constantly changing, as its ethnic, social, and demographic composition changes and as newillicit drugs roll in and roll out with the tides of fashion, including geographical variations. Yet certain terms showa...
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Slang and Jargon Summary
2,158 words, approx. 7 pages
Slang terms in the drug world change constantly. Old terms drop out of the language and new ones take their place as various drugs fall in and out of use. Slang also reflects changes in the groups who sell and use drugs—their geographical...
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Jargon Information
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For the glossary of hacker slang, see Jargon File. Jargon is terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group. Much like slang it develops as a kind of shorthand, to quickly express ideas that are frequently discussed between members...


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Jargon Quotes
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a...


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Intheblack
To jargon, or not to jargon
04/01/2005: 415 words, approx. 1 pages
YOU MUST HAVE AN OPINION ON ... Is there a problem with jargon? A groundswell is gathering against the over-use of jargon. Its enemies argue it is used by business and political leaders to confuse, disinterest and shut up their audience. Read:...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Downsize jargon!
02/01/2005: 895 words, approx. 3 pages
TERESA M. McALEAVY, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-01-2005 Downsize jargon! -- Buzzwords are a workplace scourge By TERESA M. McALEAVY, STAFF WRITER Date: 02-01-2005, Tuesday Section: BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions Column: SPOTLIGHT ON WORKPLACE At the end of...
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The New York Observer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Fox Business Network Launches Website
10/1/2007: 289 words, approx. 1 pages
The Fox Business Network launched its website late this afternoon, and here's some advice: turn your volume down before you type in the URL—www.foxbusiness.com--because when the intro video starts there will be lots of guitars almost immediately. The riffs are huge and merciless, we are...
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AP News
E-mail outage hits some BlackBerry users
9/8/2007: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
A software glitch shut down e-mail service for some BlackBerry users Friday, and delays were still being felt hours after the problem was fixed.Research in Motion Ltd., the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that makes the ubiquitous mobile device, said no e-mails were lost in the shutdown...
 


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