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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French jargun, gargon
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : [[confused]] unintelligible [[language]]
:b : a [[strange]], outlandish, or barbarous language or [[dialect]]
:c : a [[hybrid]] language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and [[grammar]] and used for communication between peoples of [[different]] [[speech]]
*2: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special [[activity]] or [[group]]
*3: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
==Description==
'''Jargon''' is terminology which is especially defined in [[relationship]] to a specific [[activity]], [[profession]], [[group]], or [[event]]. The philosophe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Bonnot_de_Condillac Condillac] observed in 1782 that "Every [[science]] requires a special [[language]] because every [[science]] has its own [[ideas]]." As a rationalist member of [[the Enlightenment]] he continued, "It seems that one ought to begin by composing this [[language]], but people begin by speaking and [[writing]] and the [[language]] remains to be [[composed]]."
In other [[words]], the term covers the [[language]] used by people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest. Much like [[slang]], it can [[develop]] as a kind of short-hand, to [[express]] [[ideas]] that are frequently discussed between members of a [[group]], though it can also be [[developed]] deliberately using chosen terms. A [[standard]] term may be given a more precise or [[unique]] usage among practitioners of a field. In many cases this causes a barrier to [[communication]] with those not familiar with the language of the field. As an example, the words RAM, bit, byte, CPU, and hexadecimal are jargon terms related to computing.
In [[Jewish]] communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "jargon" was occasionally used as a pejorative term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish Yiddish]. Such usage was current both among assimilationists, who felt that [[Jews]] would do better to speak the [[majority]] [[language]] of the surrounding [[society]], and among [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism Zionists] who urged them to speak [[Hebrew]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French jargun, gargon
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1a : [[confused]] unintelligible [[language]]
:b : a [[strange]], outlandish, or barbarous language or [[dialect]]
:c : a [[hybrid]] language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and [[grammar]] and used for communication between peoples of [[different]] [[speech]]
*2: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special [[activity]] or [[group]]
*3: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
==Description==
'''Jargon''' is terminology which is especially defined in [[relationship]] to a specific [[activity]], [[profession]], [[group]], or [[event]]. The philosophe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Bonnot_de_Condillac Condillac] observed in 1782 that "Every [[science]] requires a special [[language]] because every [[science]] has its own [[ideas]]." As a rationalist member of [[the Enlightenment]] he continued, "It seems that one ought to begin by composing this [[language]], but people begin by speaking and [[writing]] and the [[language]] remains to be [[composed]]."
In other [[words]], the term covers the [[language]] used by people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest. Much like [[slang]], it can [[develop]] as a kind of short-hand, to [[express]] [[ideas]] that are frequently discussed between members of a [[group]], though it can also be [[developed]] deliberately using chosen terms. A [[standard]] term may be given a more precise or [[unique]] usage among practitioners of a field. In many cases this causes a barrier to [[communication]] with those not familiar with the language of the field. As an example, the words RAM, bit, byte, CPU, and hexadecimal are jargon terms related to computing.
In [[Jewish]] communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "jargon" was occasionally used as a pejorative term for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish Yiddish]. Such usage was current both among assimilationists, who felt that [[Jews]] would do better to speak the [[majority]] [[language]] of the surrounding [[society]], and among [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism Zionists] who urged them to speak [[Hebrew]].
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
