Jargons as a Linguistic Phenomenon (Essay Sample)

A survey conducted among dental students and staff revealed that 22.4 percent of respondents regularly use jargon, while 55.8 percent apply it only when in a rush (Subramaniam et al. 204). These statistics indicate that jargon has become common in different professional fields. Jargons are terminologies that divide the nature of universal linguistics hence not a dialectal evolution. While jargon can portray one’s level of professionalism, it should be considered laziness and not language evolution.
Jargon is a form of shorthand that professionals use when in a hurry. Even though some people view jargon users as knowledgeable, commoner audiences define them as standoffish. Speakers who use plain ordinary language are considered friendly. Generally, jargon speakers are too lazy to explain what they mean for the layman’s comprehension fully. A corpus of over seven thousand articles from a hundred and twenty-three scientific publications released between 1881 and 2015 revealed that the decipherability of science is continuously declining (Baram-Tsabari et al. 645). This decline is evidence of the expanding usage of scientific jargon and not evolution. Moreover, the use of jargon dates back to the 14th century, when Chaucer likened jargon to the uttering of birds (Germano 163).