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Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by masklinn on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:53AM (#34105788)
But jargon is not the opposite of straightforwardness, a lot of jargon exists for concise precision[0], and hacker spaces are extremely jargon-heavy.

Hell, your comment is full of jargon. "Yuppie", "buzzword", "suit" (and "empty suit"), ...

[0] though it's usually very contextual when that's the case, which is really frustrating when things are taken out of context and either become completely unintelligible, or easily misinterpreted (and sometimes wilfully misrepresented).

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by sph on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:57AM (#34105827)
I used those words to be polite and not to call them pillocks. Empty suit isn't jargon, it's a commonly used idiom. Yuppie isn't jargon, I was thinking about the movie American Psycho. It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts.

Avoiding business jargon doesn't mean having to stick to the 1000 most used English words.

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by sbuk on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:41AM (#34106298)
> commonly used idiom

Which the article points out, though not plainly, should be avoided.

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by nickelpro on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:32AM (#34106191)
There's not a straightforward consideration of what is jargon, what is slang, and what is argot. Some linguists use the terms synonymously and some have strict theories of categorization, but there's no universal consensus.

In any case, your language here would certainly run afoul of the "simple English" the OP is espousing, and the OP terms such things "jargon", so contextually, yes, it's jargon.

Although personally I agree, the OP is using a particularly sloppy definition of "jargon", which often has a stronger technical connotation than merely metaphorical or business newspeak language.

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by chrisoverzero on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:04AM (#34106567)
> It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts.

It means “young urban professional.”

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by IIsi50MHz on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:46PM (#34168507)
I always heard "young upcoming professional ".
Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by masklinn on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:04AM (#34107244)
> Empty suit isn't jargon, it's a commonly used idiom.

Sorry to burst your bubble but that’s jargon.

> Yuppie isn't jargon, I was thinking about the movie American Psycho.

It’s also jargon.

> It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts.

I know what those terms mean.

> business jargon

Oh wow look at those goalposts flying by, amazing.

Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by patrick451 on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:24AM (#34107505)
In what sense are these words jargon? According to both the dictionary and common usage, jargon is the vocabulary of a specific trade or profession. And yet, yuppie is a word understand and used by everyone from crab fisherman to welders to lawyers to software engineers.
Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by honkler on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:09PM (#34109502)
This was the first time I was reading the word yuppie. So certainly not a jargon to me.
Re:Plain English: A simple guide on words to avoid in govern... by forgotusername6 on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:14PM (#34109561)
Yuppie although originally likely a demographic term now has a well understood meaning. It is no longer jargon.