Deepa Mohan wrote: [ on 05:18 PM 9/5/2007 ]
Jargon...I think the definition of "jargon" in its negative sense (no, I haven't googled the Wiki, this is my personal opinion) is..... high-falutin' words used to impress and intimidate the listener with the user's familiarity with a subject, when the same thing can be expressed in simpler terms....
It is not always possible to express the same thing in simpler terms, though. My favourite example is teh word "ego" which has a precise meaning in psychoanalysis - though the common usage of the term has corrupted the ability to use that sense of the term in a discussion in mixed company (by which I mean "company that includes people who haven't studied psychoanalysis").
Udhay (Don't even get me started on "hacker") -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
