People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes bad jargon people
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. Erin McKean diegoalideally Change image and share on social
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. Erin McKean daydefinitiondictionary Change image and share on social
What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. Erin McKean englishinterestpeople Change image and share on social
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. Jonathan Tropper 80sactionbad Change image and share on social
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. Matt Ridley biologybookbuy share on social