Beck teaches even more fighting game jargon!
May 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Beck teaches even more fighting game jargon!
Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.
December 5, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.
Beck teaches even MORE fighting game jargon!
August 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Beck teaches even MORE fighting game jargon!
Has anyone who argues that Democrats lose when they use too much woke jargon and win when they use less woke jargon explained how Democrats won in 2020, the Year of Woke Jargon, but lost in 2024 when they used less woke jargon?
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Has anyone who argues that Democrats lose when they use too much woke jargon and win when they use less woke jargon explained how Democrats won in 2020, the Year of Woke Jargon, but lost in 2024 when they used less woke jargon?
New military jargon has just dropped: OOPSEC.
March 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New military jargon has just dropped: OOPSEC.
Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
June 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
Love the intersection of therapy speak and personal maximization jargon
July 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Love the intersection of therapy speak and personal maximization jargon
Ich sage übrigens „Deportation“ statt „Remigration“, denn man übernimmt keinen Jargon und Euphemismen von Rechtsextremisten.
September 7, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Ich sage übrigens „Deportation“ statt „Remigration“, denn man übernimmt keinen Jargon und Euphemismen von Rechtsextremisten.
actual problem for dems is not that pols regularly use academic jargon (they mainly don't), nor is it that activists and academics have their own jargon that can be alienating to the uninitiated. it's that us media functions like a large scale libs of talk, pushing that jargon to the uninitiated
August 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
actual problem for dems is not that pols regularly use academic jargon (they mainly don't), nor is it that activists and academics have their own jargon that can be alienating to the uninitiated. it's that us media functions like a large scale libs of talk, pushing that jargon to the uninitiated
1) Academic specialists make jargon when studying [thing]
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
April 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
1) Academic specialists make jargon when studying [thing]
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
I remember having an epiphany at a Census Bureau stakeholder meeting that united business and academics: Scientists use jargon to condense complicated concepts; business people use jargon to inflate simple ones.
“Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.”
www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/c...
www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/c...
Jargon-lovers are worse at their jobs, say boffins
: Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth
www.theregister.com
March 18, 2026 at 11:51 AM
I remember having an epiphany at a Census Bureau stakeholder meeting that united business and academics: Scientists use jargon to condense complicated concepts; business people use jargon to inflate simple ones.
God, we live in such impossibly stupid times, full of dishonest people who rotely repeat small-minded jargon rather than educate themselves.
July 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
God, we live in such impossibly stupid times, full of dishonest people who rotely repeat small-minded jargon rather than educate themselves.
Four votes for “Donald Trump specifically is not subject to criminal prosecution” is (sorry for the legal jargon) fucking crazy
BREAKING: SCOTUS, ON 5-4 VOTE, WILL NOT STOP TRUMP'S FRIDAY SENTENCING IN NEW YORK COURT.
January 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Four votes for “Donald Trump specifically is not subject to criminal prosecution” is (sorry for the legal jargon) fucking crazy
& imho I think renaming things "allyslop" is of very limited utility since we can already call jargon what it is. Ironically calling it allyslop delivers the same kind of gatekeeping confusion as the jargon, especially since everyone's just calling everything they don't like slop now. Slopslop
March 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
& imho I think renaming things "allyslop" is of very limited utility since we can already call jargon what it is. Ironically calling it allyslop delivers the same kind of gatekeeping confusion as the jargon, especially since everyone's just calling everything they don't like slop now. Slopslop
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
PLAYABLE JARGON
October 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM
PLAYABLE JARGON
uuuuuuhhhhh huge jass (jargon ass)
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June 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
uuuuuuhhhhh huge jass (jargon ass)
🎨: @syc.bsky.social
🎨: @syc.bsky.social
it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed
June 22, 2024 at 11:04 AM
it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed
The politics of this. As a ruling, it obviously sucks.
Sorry to use legal jargon here.
Sorry to use legal jargon here.
August 31, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The politics of this. As a ruling, it obviously sucks.
Sorry to use legal jargon here.
Sorry to use legal jargon here.
even weirder thing here is that Trump learned the jargon "trilat"
August 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
even weirder thing here is that Trump learned the jargon "trilat"
Some authors seem to deploy their words defensively, wielding impenetrable jargon as a shield.
There's a certain kind of academic writing that seems to be yearning, striving for unreadability.
July 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Some authors seem to deploy their words defensively, wielding impenetrable jargon as a shield.