Little help here...

May 16, 2000
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Ok, in writing speeches or addressing general audiences you're always warned away from using words that only someone within a certain field would know. There's a term for that and I can't for the life of me remember it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
 

Kyteland

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Main Entry: jargon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dialect
Synonyms: abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, gobbledegook, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, jive, jive talk, language, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, weasel words