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'Jargon' is giving me the sh!ts

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I hate jargon too.

Anyways, back to the markets.

The EOD OHLC charts are indicating a bullish bias but any longs are going to be wary of the bears looking to short the resistance levels and hopefully trigger stops as markets liquidate in order to square positions that may be under water.

Bid up for OTM puts but watch the vega levels if blowouts in the IV become apparent in the VIX.
 
pointr said:
A good thread Springhill, jargon is elitist, exclusive inner circle crap. It makes me 'switch off' to a degree which is perhaps what the speakers of it want so they can progress their agendas with less challenge. Also it just occurred to me that if jargon is not precise it can also allow the speaker an 'out' eg "Oh that wasn't my intended meaning at all" Many years ago my English teacher Mr Starling at Corrimal High School used to say "Good english should be clear,concise and precise". It still should be.
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Interesting point!!! Maybe a lot of people on this site could think a little more about the jargon and another pet hate of mine, the use of abbrev's, whoops - abbrevations. The height of arrogance to assume we all know what you are talking about!

The use of an LOL I can forgive, at times, yet for you boffins out there, try to think of us little people when a sentence is put together along the lines of ... When you use XYZ in GH and 457YHU is about to ^& on a 09 then make sure you AGGG so that you can 67GT ... Sounds like sh*t to me, looks like sh*t to me, and in most cases means absolute sh*t.
 
wayneL said:
Jargon is contagious.

Moving forw.... errr, sorry, bear with me... err I mean.... oh never mind. I mean in the future, people will just have to find new jargon to be infected with. :p:
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Don't forget my favourite: Are you with me people?
 
My favourite is this very complex speech, which is one of the best known in all dramatic works, Hamlet goes on to consider the fate of us all when he compares the skull to those still living.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that.

A bit off topic to be quoting Shakespeare ... but he was the true master of the spoken and written word.

My other favourite is Ruddspeak:-
'detailed programmatic specificity' left the German translator in tears and looking for a new job.
'conceptual synthesis' aimed at the Chinese who could not translate it at all.
'natural complementarity' in Washington and the Yanks went scurrying for the dictionary.
 
trainspotter said:
My other favourite is Ruddspeak:-

'natural complementarity' in Washington and the Yanks went scurrying for the dictionary.
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lol (sorry --- i mean laugh out loud !!) ---new found respect for the rudder ;) ---

u (sorry --- i mean you) would have thought the yanks would have been well versed in quantum theory :D
 
Hey BRTY,

Because the bank's work spaces are open plan, I can't surf pr0n all day, so no w*nkng at workk. Shame, could help pass the day.

Definitely need pr0n as bank chicks are huge and angry
 
Surfer35 said:
Hey BRTY,

Because the bank's work spaces are open plan, I can't surf pr0n all day, so no w*nkng at workk. Shame, could help pass the day.

Definitely need pr0n as bank chicks are huge and angry
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LFMAOOOOOOO :D ... I reckon you should have a tea spoon of cement and take a hit for the team and try and climb one or two of these "huge and angry bank chicks" GO YOU GOOD THING !! LOLOLOL
 
Today...
Meeting = 1 hour. Term "go forward" used nine times.
Report received = "greater granularity required" which means "more detail required".

I hate jargon.
 
Heard while waiting in line at the airport from a middle management type from out of town -

I much prefer to be out at the "operational coalface".

I'm fairly sure everyone in the terminal heard and saw me cringe.
 
In engineering terms, FEL=Front End Loading. No, it doesn't mean a friggin big earth moving machine collecting dirt and movin it around the place. It means either "Conceptual Design", "Pre-Feasibility Study" or "Feasibility and Basic Engineering". So ffs, why not just say that. Huh?
 
"Yes, we will...... move forward with confidence and optimism, yes, we will show care and concern for each other'"
J. Gillard 2010.

Wow, that's heavy stuff, must have taken an army of jargonologists to coin that one.
Will go down in history as one of the greats alongside Churchill and Wilde.
 
"Working families" was far worse IMO. What if that family had 3 kids - were they all down in the coal mines during the day?

Garratt had his "short jocular conversation" during the 2007 election repeated ad nauseum.

"Core and non-core promises" is such a ridiculous notion it could have only come from the Josef Goebbels rule-book on fib telling.

"Never ever meant in terms of this election only" is a classic that deserves a mention.

Nothing will ever beat Fox News in the US, with their tagline "Fair and Balanced". They make Al Jazeera look centre-left!
 
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