Jargon Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jargon Language Learning
I'm terrible with tech. But I'm good with jargon. I can sound like I know what I'm doing. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm… — Chloe Bennet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
