Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.