technical jargon
Field-specific shop talk
Technical jargon is specialized vocabulary used within a particular field or profession—the terms experts use among themselves that outsiders find obscure or impenetrable.
The contract was full of legal jargon.
Can you explain it without all the technical jargon?
The word jargon carries a slightly negative connotation, suggesting language that excludes or confuses rather than clarifies.
- acronymsWords made from initials
- abbreviationsTruncated word forms
- terminologySubject-specific vocabulary
- specialized vocabularyTechnical terms for experts
- gobbledygookPretentious unintelligible language
industry speak · alphabet soup · nomenclature · standardization · learning curve · technobabble · precision · computer science · linguistics · exclusivity · obfuscation · lost in translation · neologisms · professional identity · miscommunication · specs · engineering · knowledge transfer
- jargonlingo, slang, buzz words, legalese, code words
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- glossaries
- translation errorsfalse friends, literal translation, word-for-word, garble, calque
technical jargonplain English
Unadorned, accessible wording
layman's terms · everyday language · plain language · common parlance · accessible language
technical jargonconversational English
Informal everyday spoken language
casual speech · colloquial speech · informal language · informal speech · everyday speech