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jargonise

verb - to jargonise, the act of taking a simple easily understood word and changing it to a different word which is harder to understand by most as it is from a semantic field understood only by those with intense knowledge of that particular field. Can also be the act of taking a simple easily understood text, and carrying through a similar action as above except to the whole text. past tense, jargonised

I was able to understand that word, because it was just the word, 'word', but now someones jargonised and its now 'lexeme' and I can't understand it.

by jargoniser March 10, 2011


jargonistic

adjective - used to describe a word which is of a very specific semantic field which only people with knowledge of that field would understand, can also be used to describe a whole text

I keeping reading this text book, but i can't understand a word of it, it's really jargonistic

by jargoniser March 10, 2011

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