Frequent, Unexplained Jargon Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon ...

During the news gathering process, reporters can often struggle with understanding complex, jargon-heavy documents, particularly in fields like science and technology. For instance, a tech reporter ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When scientists and others use their specialized jargon terms while communicating with the general public, the effects are much worse than just making what they're saying hard to ...

Nobody knows what you’re talking about. And they are afraid to tell you. That’s the conclusion of a LinkedIn and Duolingo survey of more than 1,000 U.S. workers just released this morning. Among its ...

Everyone has had that moment in a meeting where someone throws out some industry jargon or acronym and you just have no idea what they’re talking about. Sometimes, you can work it out by pulling from ...

In what should surprise no one, Gen Z and Millennial colleagues get the ‘ick’ when they hear cringe-worthy workplace jargon terms in calls and meetings, or read them in an email. We’ve all been on the ...

This year might go down in the history books as the year of mind-numbing business jargon. Terms like "seizing up of credit markets" and "we can't roll our commercial paper" were common. Understand it ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...