Jargon and Buzzwords — buzzword compliant cockroach problem designer babble edubabble facepalm jargonaut jargon creep … New words
jargon gap — n. The inability to understand another person s jargon laden writing or speech; a feeling of inadequacy (usu. ironic) caused by another s facility with jargon terms. Example Citation: Partners and associates of the Bilgewater Consulting Corp.,… … New words
jargon creep — n. The tendency for the use of jargon terms to expand into different contexts and to spawn variations on the original terms. Example Citations: Generating jargon comes naturally to business. So no one should have been surprised when entrepreneurs … New words
jargon filter — n. An email program filter that has been configured to automatically delete incoming messages that contain certain jargon terms or buzzwords. Example Citation: After more than six months of research on the words most hated by the media and those… … New words
buzzword-compliant — adj. Describes a piece of writing that is littered with jargon and buzzwords. Example Citation: Your average resume is as useful as, say, your average Time/CNN report on American soldiers gassing their own: the most enlightening revelation is not … New words
jargonaut — n. A person who uses a an excessive number of jargon terms when speaking or writing. Example Citation: The plain white envelope, as those anonymous ones do, just sort of showed up in the County Lines mail slot. Inside was a cute decal of Freddy,… … New words
designer-babble — (di.ZY.nur bab.ul) n. A florid and jargon filled writing style used by designers and architects. Example Citation: Stephen A. Kliment, former editor of Architectural Record, says a lot of the time even he can t figure out what the heck today s… … New words
neurobabble — (NOO.roh.bab.ul) n. Neurological jargon used inaccurately or simplistically. Example Citation: The cop, trying to keep abreast of scientific efforts to understand Tourette s, refers to a Dateline NBC segment that explained how, like, there s a… … New words
buzzword bingo — (BUZ.wurd bing.go) n. A word game played during corporate meetings. Players are issued bingo like cards with lists of buzzwords such as paradigm and proactive. Players check off these words as they come up in the meeting, and the first to fill in … New words
camouflanguage — n. Language that uses jargon, euphemisms, and other devices to hide the true meaning of what is being said. Example Citation: The fine art of camouflanguage is alive and well in the business world, as evidenced by these excerpts from the… … New words
