39 Quotes About Jargon

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

One day I hope business will stop using military terms to describe how to serve a customer.

I used to be scared of death until I found out it's now called 'end of life.' Phew, that was close!

You don't fly to another country and expect the residents to speak your language. You have to communicate with speech they understand. Winning business involves speaking human, not spewing jargon.

One of the main functions of jargon is to exaggerate expertise.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

In the forbidden zone of interpretation, the tyranny of language becomes the poisoned-tip of the bureaucratic spear.

Freud and Jung and all the rest of them published their theories, but all they did was t'invent a lot of jargon t'get people talkin'. Gave mental phenomena a little scholastic color.

The goal of American English speakers appears to be to rob the mother tongue of direct meaning and replace it with needlessly-complex jargon.