Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.
I never want to be pretentious.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.