2007-07-15 16:39:35 · 7 answers · asked by jimdieselraiders 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Jargon is language peculiar to a particular trade (ex. medical jargon)
2007-07-15 16:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by andy_mycrib_1987 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jargon is basically the technical language and terms used by a certain group. Like..computer jargon would be such things as: DVD-ROM, RAM, and so on. If you want to get technical:
1 a: confused unintelligible language b: a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect c: a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
2: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
3: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
2007-07-15 23:44:45 · answer #2 · answered by spinningthroughlife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technical language or really specific language that has little use in everyday conversation. Usually the jargon words are specific to a profession (like doctors or chemists) or even the internet. You could call terms like BTW and FAQ jargon (or arguably slang). They're words that have virtually no other purpose outside of their original context, and is used/created to be used only by a specific group of people
It's esoteric.
Jargon is sort of like...professional slang.
2007-07-15 23:48:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jargon is words used by people in a limited area and given a special meeting in that area. An example my father gave me when he researched training programs in industry is 'soup' which refer to liquid ink in the printing industry, liquid soap in the detergent industry and, amazingly, liquid soup in the food industry.
Sometimes it is shorthand, 'lox' is liquid oxygen in rocketry and medicine and other places.
Sometimes jargon is just the precise words that people need to communicate accurately - in medicine, dorsal and ventral have exact meanings that front/back and top/bottom don't have when a person is injured and laying on their side (dorsal is down the spine and ventral down the belly.)
Usually it is precise in its place, unlike slang.
2007-07-15 23:46:52 · answer #4 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
2. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin.
3. The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group
2007-07-15 23:42:48 · answer #5 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jargon is technical language within a group i.e doctors stuff thay say all they time and you have no idea what they are saying
2007-07-15 23:43:13 · answer #6 · answered by Josh D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nonsensical, incoherent or meaningless talk, unintelligible or foolish talk.
2007-07-15 23:45:09 · answer #7 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋