Currents Quote by Constance Hale

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one…

— Alan Turing

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

— Susie Dent

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Anonymous

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Erin McKean

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…

— David Lehman

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my…

— Gretchen Rubin

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg…

— John Ralston Saul