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Overuse of jargon - Column
Many words and phrases are being overused by people in politics, the media and other areas of public life. These buzzwords have been used so often that they have become hackneyed jargon that obscures issues.See the full content of this document
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A barrage of buzzwords.
Every profession has its own jargon. For example, surgeons don't speak of making a cut in a patient's side, but of a lateral incision. They make sutures, not stitches, in closing a wound. In medical terms, what the layman knows as a heart attack becomes a myocardial infarctio...
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