Jargon Informatique

Alan Siegel Let's simplify legal jargon!

So we need what the jargon calls surveillance.

So we have largely stood still, in trade jargon.

The Jargon File is a glossary of computer programmer slang.

I really do not like all the abbreviations, foreign words, and jargon no one understands.

This was called, in the geostrategic jargon of the day, mutually assured destruction, or MAD.

Indeed, Mickey Mouse himself, of course, as Steamboat Willie, is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular Steamboat Bill by Buster Keaton.

Here Bush is conspicuously absent without leave (AWOL in military jargon). Time and again, he questions the scientific evidence.

My life was ruled by tk which stands for to kum, or to come, in the jargon of reporters.

As such, MVRDV have succeeded in mastering the master discipline that specialist jargon refers to as the formation of identity.

The ABC network, affectionately known in the trade as the T A network, right that's not too much jargon, is it?

In the jargon of economists, low demand will engender low supply, making a non inflationary recovery even more difficult to achieve.

But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.

The sales technique should be based on fiscal and regulatory concepts and be expressed in legal and financial jargon, which only experts can do.

Policymakers must be aware of the educational and cultural damage that continuous reforms all justified in the future oriented jargon of the day can wreak.

Most governments de facto oppose a single resolution mechanism (SRM in Brussels jargon), because it would mean that they could no longer control their own banks.

Not only had he been producing pictures for a decade, but he brought along commitments for films starring his wife, Norma Talmadge, his sister in law, Constance Talmadge, and his brother in law, Buster Keaton.

The site in question is Lurkmore , a Wikipedia like compendium of articles on Internet culture and memes, written in an irreverent style with heavy use of internet jargon.

This one was great it went to 100,000 feet, but didn't quite. Actually, it went 11 feet into the solid clay and it became a bunker buster, drilling down into the clay. It had to be dug out.

In economic jargon, the supply curve of labor was flat but is now sloping upward, so that rapidly increasing demand for labor resulting from rapid growth is driving up wages.

Universities perform their natural economic function when academics speak and write plainly, demystify jargon, present their ideas in alternative media and stress applications to domains that do not concern the academics themselves.

No one ever doubted that the Euro would gain acceptance as a currency in economists' jargon, that the Euro would become an important medium of exchange, or even a good store of value.

To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.

But, in order to realize the hope that ordinary soldiers take from the new jargon, Western leaders will need to forge a clear political strategy for Afghanistan, without which the country will remain at war.

Of course, we should strive to ensure that money is spent as productively as possible, but humans, and human institutions, are fallible, and there are costs to ensuring that money is well spent. To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.