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Lots of people find jargon annoying. Is it useful in the workplace? Pippa and Phil talk about when to use jargon and when to avoid it, with help from journalist Anna Maloney, Anne Curzan from the ...

Sometime over the past few decades, the language of business mutated. Once it was marked by a spare grammar and restricted vocabulary. Communication between boss and worker took the form of an insult ...

Altering words in some way to conceal their meaning to those outside the group is typical of jargons the world over ...

Have you ever been confused by the jargon used on Wall Street? Perhaps it is time to translate some of those esoteric stock market terms into plain English for you. Blue chips: This term refers to ...

The slang term at the center of a political brouhaha swirling around former FBI Director James Comey is an old one, likely originating as food-service-industry jargon before extending to other ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...

Have you ever been given a document so fat that it makes your college syllabus a meme? Yep, that is your employee settlement contract. It is full of legal jargon that might sound nice but would ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The slang term at the center of a political brouhaha swirling around former FBI Director James Comey is an old one, likely originating as food-service-industry jargon before extending ...