Quotes Tagged With :jargon

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible....

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us....

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very....

Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either....

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological....

These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education.....

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by....

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder....

... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was....