deffrientiate between slang and jargon expressions in english language?

Question

deffrientiate between slang and jargon expressions in english language?

Answer 1

Sometimes there is no difference, but sometimes it is an important difference.

Slang is a slurred or abbreviated communication that is not a proper use of the language. It can be cute, it can be colorful, it can be contageously popular, but usually not proper. Aint for is not is an easy one.

Jargon, however, is specific to a subject of study or activity. It could be derived from an acronym and used as slang. WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, is computer geek talk that began both as slang, acronym, and is now computer jargon. Science is crammed full of terms with sources in Latin words. History is filled with foreign expressions such as lingua franca, which literally means French language but contextually means the common language. Engineering, accounting, medicine, they all have concise and specific terms of meaning that are not common to the rest of the world's speech. This is jargon. Sometimes they get cute and substitute some different expressive expression, that is slang. When a discipline's slang is used only in that field of study, then the slang is also jargon.

Answer 2

Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. It is defined as language peculiar to a particular group: an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrary changed words, and extravagant, forced or facetious figures of speech

Whereas Jargon is terminology, much like slang, that relates to a specific activity, profession, or group. It develops as a kind of shorthand, to express ideas that are frequently discussed between members of a group, and can also have the effect of distinguishing those belonging to a group from those who are not. Newcomers or those unfamiliar with a subject can often be characterized by their incorrect use of jargon, which can lead to amusing malapropisms. The use of jargon by outsiders is considered by insiders to be socially inappropriate, since it consitutes a claim to be a member of the insider group.

Answer 3

Hi,

Slang is a common term that many English speakers use, that is not correct English. For example, in the phrase "I ain't never been to New York", "ain't never" is considered slang; it's horrible grammar, but many people say it anyway. Other slang words (words commonly used improperly) are: huh, cool, hot, bad, gunna, and most curse words.

Jargon, however, is an extremely specialized term used in one particular field. For example, in the phrase "Have you defragmented your computer lately?" the word defragmented is considered Jargon. In the computer field, defragment has an extremely spacific meaning that it doesn't have anywhere else.