Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Argot (n)

From argoter which means "to quarrel", which is startlingly appropriate. The purpose of argot is to mystify, or to deliberately fail to communicate. Synonyms of argot are jargon, doublespeak, idiom, "special vocabulary. Examples of which could be policyspeak, lawerspeak, governmentspeak, et cetera. 
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