Quotes Tagged With :jargon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts.""Really?""We adopted a proactive....

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

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