jargon

I never knew my husband was someone who said things like “circle back” and “touching base” until COVID lockdowns forced us to work side by side at the dinner table.Asking around, everyone has a hated jargon term. For some it’s “100 per…

In theory, charging your phone, tablet, or laptop should be pretty simple: Plug a cable into the device, plug the cable into a charger, wait for the device to charge, and be on your way. But never underestimate the tech industry’s…

Like every other journalist I know, I spent part of last week mucking around with ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence chatbot that can write jokes, poems, student essays and, yes, newspaper columns.When I asked it to “write a hilarious…

Amy Norton FRIDAY, Dec. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you've ever left a medical appointment confused, it's probably not you: A new study finds that the medical jargon doctors use can be completely…

Although the C-suite are now keenly aware of the threats to their organisation, and how often they are attacked, many struggle to understand the terminology that cyber security professionals would consider everyday language, but to…

Published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers examined whether the general public understands the medical jargon that physicians typically use in their introductions to patients. They…

So much corporate gobbledygook gets thrown around LinkedIn that when an account from comic creation Alan Partridge was launched in the midst of the pandemic, his spoof posts seemed to blend in seamlessly.In one update mocking those who…

It might feel good to use impressive-sounding terms, but jargon often does more harm than good for your credibility as a leader. Learn to remove jargon from your speech so people understand you.…