NOTE 03
From PLAIN WORDS by Sir Ernest Gowers

The proper meaning of jargon is writing that employs technical words not commonly intelligible. Catachresis for instance is grammarians' jargon for using a word in a wrong sense. When grammarians call writing jargon merely because it is verbose, circumlocutory and flabby, they themselves commit the sin of catachresis that they denounce in others.

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