Lots of people find jargon annoying. Is it useful in the workplace? Pippa and Phil talk about when to use jargon and when to avoid it, with help from journalist Anna Maloney, Anne Curzan from the ...

Clear writing clearly isn’t jargon; it’s glorious writing. At least, that's what the word's origins tell us—"clarity" comes from the Middle English sense of glory or divine splendor.

In that novel and others, Orwell had a knack for using language that sounds a lot like modern corporate jargon. See if you ...

Pete S wondered what we should call this jargon: "When my father worked in ... or "careful writers" as the Routledge Student Guide to English Usage calls us, would do best to avoid the phrase ...

You've just experienced the confusing world of specialized jargon. I opened with Klingon, Star Trek's fictional language, followed by Na'vi from Avatar, before finally landing on good old English.

In content marketing and in journalism, the word jargon has come to be used mostly as an insult. It's a label that people put on unfamiliar language they dismiss as gibberish. Jargon has another ...

Some of this is generated by a form of English unique to this gathering ... Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz to explain - without using any jargon herself back in 2016. Catch-all term for those ...

A groundbreaking AI-driven method has been developed to identify drug trafficking-related dark jargons on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter). Drug trafficking and other criminal ...

So, I spoke to Anne Curzan, Professor of English language at the University of Michigan, who thinks that sometimes we love to hate jargon just a bit too much. One of the things that you see is ...