jargon
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a: Jargon ~
b: an inside joke
What: "Jargon is like an inside joke. It's a word or phrase that means something to someone, but if you don't know the backstory, it won't mean much to you."
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Writer: Aubrey Henretty
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Date: Oct 14 2013 7:58 PM
# 4022 Critique Analogy
a: Jargon ~
b: mold
What: "Eradicating jargon takes vigilance and skill. It takes vigilance because jargon is like mold: it creeps up on you on unaware. It takes skill because often times, you're battling powers greater than yourself (i.e. management who thinks talking in this stiff, stilted way helps attract customers.)"
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Writer: Dianna Huff
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:01 PM
# 4025 Critique Analogy
Needs Some Insecticide
a: Jargon ~
b: insect infestation
What: "Corporate jargon is like insect infestation. It gets into everything. Suddenly your verbs are being made into nouns, your nouns into verbs, words are mashed together and then clipped before the suffix, new words are created from old ones, half-metaphores are mating with other half-metaphores, and the net net is EMPLOYEES DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK EXECUTIVES ARE SAYING. But we're supposed to, and that's the frustrating thing."
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Writer: Todd
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:01 PM
# 4026 Critique Analogy
a: Jargon ~
b: proprietary software
What: "Today, people cloistered in niches are at a great disadvantage. The winners will master one or both of the two world languages in the global economy, English and math. Both of them cross borders and bridge disciplines. Jargon is like proprietary software in a world moving toward open-source."
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Writer: Steve Hardy
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:04 PM
# 4027 Critique Analogy
a: Jargon ~
b: Lego
What: "Jargon is like Lego: start fixing it together and you soon have something sturdily built but quite impossible to recognise."
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Writer: Simon Hoggart
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:08 PM
# 4028 Critique Analogy
Ding Ding
a: Jargon ~
b: bell at the start of a round of boxing
What: "To me, the use of jargon is like the bell at the start of a round of boxing. Prepare for some fancy footwork. In advertising copy, it appears as the seven highly over-exposed habitual cliches of the hack writer."
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Writer: Nigel
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:12 PM
# 4029 Critique Analogy
a: Jargon ~
b: sex
What: "Jargon is like sex, it's fine in private between consulting adults. (wish I could remember who came up with that)."
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Writer: drew stephenson
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:12 PM
# 4031 Critique Analogy
a: Jargon ~
b: the anti-English
What: "Jargon is like the anti-English these days. As the world converges on one language we diverge with our little jargon village dialects. Military, engineering, legal, medical, computing, does it end?"
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Writer: Argent
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:16 PM
# 4032 Critique Analogy
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