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 ...

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 ...

Author George Orwell is perhaps best known for Nineteen Eighty-Four, his prescient vision of a future in which an oppressive ...

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 ...

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.

I cover transformation and innovation across the health care industry. But in healthcare, jargon seems a little different. In healthcare, jargon is often meaningless. It creates a gap between what ...

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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 ...

BEACH-LA-MAR is that peculiar variety of English speech which has arisen from ... and was finally settled as the jargon of the Pacific by the “blackbirding” (more delicately described as ...

Strategy is among the most commonly misused and confused terms in management. Many a time, big jargons are used even without understanding the meaning by many people in the business world.