I guess I don't understand how it is jargon, obfuscatory or otherwise.
Common usage? I mean, who's using it? Because I don't usually hear non-journalists use it. I mean, consumers of news don't seem to refer to people as insurgents.
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> > state's rights? out of context, i don't understand how to is jargon.
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>Is the problem that you have a specific definition of the word jargon that
>doesn't jibe with applying it to a short phrase most often used to veil
>racist, sexist and classist intent? Is jargon different from code, I
>guess, is the question. I see them as overlapping. Codes and connotations
>are part and parcel of the strategic situatedness of the use of all jargon
>as I see it.
i'm asking *you* because you offered a claim - there is jargon that is appropriately technical terminology specific to a field, and then there is jargon. you didn't provide examples. I asked for examples as you would use with your students b/c you said you drew on conversations with your students about jargon in sociology.
So, I'm a student and I'm asking you a question because I don't understand you and would like to pass the test, 'k?
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> > what is id, ego, superego an example of? properly used technical
> > language or obfuscatory jargon.
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>All three were obfuscatory jargon, I should have been more clear. The Id =
>The It, The Ego = The I, Superego = The Super I ... the traditional
>translation only serves to get in the way of everyday English language
>readers... as it did me the first time.
again, I don't understand how they are obfuscatory. what are they obfuscating? who is doing the obfuscating. why do they do it, if there's a who involved? is this something that is theorized in sociology? if so, wondering what the theory is about obfuscatory jargon.
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