Quotes by Jargon Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. Kingman Brewster, Jr. jargonhallmarkprofession Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins jargonenvelopesway There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations. Lord Chesterfield jargonpoliticalmean I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand. Lucas Till jargontalkingdrama Jargon: any technical language we do not understand. Mason Cooley jargonlanguage Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. Mason Cooley jargonrobesbeard The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. Michael Crichton jargonacademicworld The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon. Murray Rothbard jargonrevolutionarytheory Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Nancy Pearcey jargonliterary-theoryliterature My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is. Nina Simone jargoncatpeople Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists. Pierre Hadot jargonphilosophyart Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems. Richard Rosen jargonfrozenunderstanding Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands. Ron Kaufman jargonlanguagemay Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It’s really kind of gross – which is why I hang out with you. But only because you’re less gross than they are. (Jesse) Sherrilyn Kenyon jargonatomsdevil I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden. Susan Sontag jargonwritingyears Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. Theodor Adorno jargonsoundmean What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content. Theodor Adorno jargonindividualdetermined The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. Theodor Adorno jargonauthenticitylanguage Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. Wendy Kaminer jargonleftbrain I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it. William H. Gass jargonhatedesire«123»
