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People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.