Little help here...

[PrinceofWands]

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?

 

[laurenlex]

Elitist snobbery?

 

[Cooljt1]

jargon

 

Originally posted by: Cooljt1
jargon

 

[DrPizza]

"avoid jargon"?

 

[Cristatus]

my brain just farted from readind the OP's post

 

[WhiteWonder]

I ate some eggs, now that stinks.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Cooljt1
jargon

BLESS YOU! Thanks.

 

[Kyteland]

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

 

[Anonemous]

jar.... aww darn it.