LESSON 8 - JARGON and SLANG IN COMMUNICATION

Jargon

(also called Gobbledygook) is a language used by groups that have similar interests like professions, trades, and sports.

Slang

. A language that is not universal throughout society that people in different social standing may give a common word different meanings

Slang

A language that contains fluid quality since words change meanings rapidly

Slang

A language that is markedly lower in prestige than Standard English

Slang

A language that is often academically taboo and unlikely to be used by educated people

Lame duck

A politician who is considered ineffective, either because he or she was recently elected out of office or announced retirement.

Slang

An extreme form of colloquialism that is sometimes known as "street talk"

Slang

An informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of invented words, arbitrary changed words, and extravagant figures of speech

DMO

Destination Marketing Organization. A destination marketing organization is an entity that promotes a town, city, region, or country to increase visitation.

ETA

Estimated Time of Arrival

1. Legal Jargon 2. Political Jargon 3. Medical Jargon 4. Banking Jargon 5. Computer Jargon 6. Psychology Jargon G. Travel and Tourism Jargon

Example of jargon used in different kinds of workplace

Short-lived Coinages

Examples: batitude (bad attitude), fatso (a fast person), edress (e-mail address)

Existing Words with New Meaning

Examples: bread (money), broke (without money), nuts (crazy)

Rap Slang

Examples: yo! (greetings), nuts (crazy), gig (job)

Backslang

Examples: yob (boy), ecilop (police), werpa (power)

FAM

Familiarization Tour are marketing initiatives, inviting either media or travel trade professionals to tour a region or destination.

CBC

Medical shorthand for Complete Blood Count.

BP

Medical shorthand for blood pressure.

Front-line staff

People who interact with and give service to customers, guests and visitors. For example, front desk staff at a hotel or a cashier at an attraction.

Public Servant

Political jargon for an elected official

RAM

Random Access Memory

1. Backslang 2. Rap Slang 3. Short-lived Coinages 4. Existing Words with New Meaning 5. Emoticons or Smileys

STYLES OF SLANG

Partisan

Something that only works toward the goals of one political party, and often works against the goals of the other.

Psychology Jargon

Terms commonly used in a psychology class or related field

Assets

The attractions, hotels and restaurants within a given region. Assets are what that area has to offer guests who visit.

Medical Jargon

The medical field is filled with cryptic jargon, including innumerable scientific terms and medical abbreviations.

Principal Balance

The outstanding balance on a loan, excluding interest and fees.

Group Leader

The person who accompanies and/or leads the people on a group tour.

Itinerary

The planned route for a trip.

Billing Cycle

The time interval between the dates on which regular periodic statements are issued.

ACRONYMS

This refer to abbreviations formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word. (BulSU - Bulacan State University, MOA - Memorandum of Agreement)

INITIALISMS

This refers to abbreviations formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced separately. (CEO - Chief Executive Officer, ICU - Intensive Care Unit, PCM - Purposive Comm.)

TECHNICAL JARGON

This refers to official terms for particular applied science or and should not be used in other workplace.

Inbound Tourism

Tourism generated by visitors from foreign countries.

WWW

World Wide Web

Deception

a misleading falsehood

Disk

a place to store data.

Left-Wing

a politician or citizen who is more liberal than the average person.

Reinforcement

a stimulus that strengthens the behavior that produced it

Phobia

an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear

Behaviorism

an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior

Placebo

an innocuous or inert medication

Herewith

attached with this letter

Banking Jargon

commonly used terminologies in banks

q2h

every 2 hours. As in drinking medicine every two hours.

Henceforth

from this time on

Data

information stored on a computer

LEGALESE

is a formal and technical language used by lawyers, judges, legislators and others in legal profession. It is filled with terminologies that often confuse than explain.

SLANG

is an innovative language occurring mostly in casual and playful speech. It consists of short-lived coinages, extravagant figures of speech and existing words in new meanings.

Net Rate

is the price for a hotel room without the commission of the third-party distributor.

Political Jargon

is the shared language of catch phrases spoken by those in politics

Debit

it may be an account entry representing money you owe a lender or money

Mobile dentition

loose teeth

Scheduled Flight

means that tickets to this flight are sold via various sales channels around the world.

Psychological

mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature

Whereof

of what or which

Charter flights

on the other hand, are bought from the airline by a tour operator

buzzwords

people use these words to impress others

Hacker

people who search flaws in the way computers work.

Catharsis

purging of emotional tensions

PAX

stands for Passengers. This is a term used in Airline industry.

Withdrawal

the act of taking out money or other capital.

Memory

the cognitive study of how past experience is remembered

Cognition

the psychological result of perception and reasoning

Altruism

the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

Bit

the smallest data unit, can either be a "0" or a "1."

Hardware

the solid parts of a computer, like monitors, fans, CPU, etc

Byte

there are 8 bits in a byte. One byte is enough to hold one single letter or number of text.

Download

to copy data from somewhere.

Upload

to put data on somewhere. For example, on the internet or a website

Computer Jargon

words to do with computers and surrounding topics.