A Twittering of Birds: The Inscrutable World of Jargon - 0 views
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MrGhaz . on 28 Nov 09Originally a French word meaning "the twittering of birds," jargon, in English, was applied to the codes used by criminals who did not want law-abiding citizens to know what they were saying. Today jargon words are coined not to confuse outsiders but because the objects, jobs, or situations they describe may have no equivalents outside a particular profession.