List Of Jargon Quotes

The General Theory Was Not Truly Revolutionary At All But Merely Old And Oft-refuted Mercantilist And Inflationist Fallacies Dressed Up In Shiny New Garb, Replete With Newly Constructed And Largely Incomprehensible Jargon.

If An Opinion Can Eventually Go To The Determination Of A Practical Belief, It, In So Far, Becomes Itself A Practical Belief; And Every Proposition That Is Not Pure Metaphysical Jargon And Chatter Must Have Some Possible Bearing Upon Practice.

Literary Theory Has Become A Parody Of Science, Generating Its Own Arcane Jargon. In The Process, Tragically, It Discourages Love Of Literature For Its Own Sake.

I Despise The Phony, Fancy-pants Rhetoric Of Professors Aping Jargon-filled European Locutions - Which Have Blighted Academic Film Criticism For Over 30 Years.

The Clear And Simple Words Of Common Usage Are Always Better Than Those Of Erudition. The Jargon Of The Philosophers Not Seldom Conceals An Absence Of Thought.

Never Use Jargon Words Like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They Are Hallmarks Of A Pretentious Ass.

Our Business Is Infested With Idiots Who Try To Impress By Using Pretentious Jargon.

How Does One Say In The Jargon Of Musicology That My Sould Was Pulled Out Of Me And Thrown Up In The Air, To Be Tossed About By The Music. How Does One Say That I Breathed, That I Existed, In Harmony With The Ups And Downs Of Those Notes. What Kind Of Notes Both Elevate And Cast Down, Exalt And Crush?

My People Have Very Subtle Slang, Inflections And Ways Of Saying Things That Has Little To Do With Words. If You're From The Same Place, You'll Feel The Jargon And Know Exactly What's Happening. Same With Any Neighborhood Cat. What He Sees And Hears And Feels And Lives Makes Him What He Is. That's What Blues Is.

I'm Extremely Interested In The Russian Formalists And Have Been For Many Years. I'm More Drawn To Their Writing, Which Is Expressive And Literary, Than To Writing Which Is Extremely Academic Or Jargon-ridden.

English, As A Subject, Never Really Got Over Its Upstart Nature. It Tries To Bulk Itself Up With Hopeless Jargon And Specious Complexity, Tries To Imitate Subjects It Can Never Be.

Do Not Be Taken In By 'insiderisms.' Fledgling Columnists, Eager To Impress Readers With Their Grasp Of Journalistic Jargon, Are Drawn To Such Arcane Spellings As 'lede.' Where They Lede, Do Not Follow.