I go to lots of conferences and seminars. The result of this, (apart from the addiction to buffet food) is that I now speak a different language – ‘Jargy Jargy’ or Jargon, “the specialist language for a specific activity or group of people” (I’ve gone on about this before). If you stop and think about it […]
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I’m not ashamed to admit my naivety and ignorance. In the last post I was astonished to find out there was a book available called ‘NHS Jargon Explained’. I was just scratching the surface….. On the basis that jargon is “the specialised or technical language of a trade, profession or similar group”, and the NHS […]
Jargon. A tool of exclusion, efficient technical language or just the ‘cheeping of birds’?
My last post about meetings led to a bit of a discussion about jargon. It’s something that’s despised by many people, but has probably been used by most of us on occasions . So I’m being particularly carefull to avoid using it in this post. It’s worth having a think about why jargon exists and […]
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