Behinds Quote by Bertrand Russell

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced…

— Ernest Gellner

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost…

— Barry Ritholtz

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

— Erin McKean

The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be…

— Ian Hacking

“If we want to engage students in learning, we need to first understand their world.”

— Lynne Schrum

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

— Susie Dent

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length.…

— Lawrence Lessig

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

— Anonymous

“many people are good at talking and bad at understanding,”

— Teresa of Ávila

“To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling…

— Muriel Barbery