Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

Setting: a sunny office on an early-spring afternoon. Mojo the dog is sleeping on a pillow in the corner. Liz is sitting at the conference table. The phone rings. Liz: I hate it, but it's like kudzu.

COMMENTARY If I had to write one wildly popular business article -- just one -- it would have to be about the horrors of business jargon. For some reason, it makes people crazy. But here's the thing.

If you’re using terms like “make hay” and “peel the onion” in your job ads, stop. Just stop. Even words like “dynamic” and “self-starter” can trip a reader up. According to an analysis of 6.3 million ...

I detest jargon at a visceral level. Not only do I understand how much it sabotages our communication, but I feel how ugly it is, how it stultifies the soul. It does not deserve to live. Hopefully, ...

There are plenty of things your coworkers say that drive you up the wall. There are plenty of things that you say that drive your coworkers up the wall. But, it turns out there are some corporate ...

Business jargon is annoying–but startup jargon? That’s on an entirely different level. It’s not just annoying to the people who have been around the block a few times like venture capitalists and ...

Astrophysicist Roberto Trotta argues that we don't need jargon. He tells NPR's Wade Goodwyn he's compiled a history of the universe as we know it, using only the 1,000 most-common English words. A ...

Frequent, Unexplained Jargon Total jargon use during appointments ranged from 0 to 26, with a mean of 5.40 instances of use during each encounter, the authors report. The mean use of distinct jargon ...