What's the difference between gibberish and jargon?

Gibberish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
  • (a.) Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (2) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (3) If you followed the remarks as they are written in the official transcript, the president elect was talking gibberish.
  • (4) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
  • (5) "From which dusty basement did they dig out the venomous Stalinist spider who wrote that gibberish?"
  • (6) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
  • (7) That’s why Trump’s 100 days of gibberish aren’t just disorienting and silly – they’re dangerous.
  • (8) His one decent story was sent as a cable in Latin to keep it secret, but the foreign desk assumed it was gibberish and binned it; he was out of town when the biggest story of the war, concerning a mysterious British financier who tried to stymie the Italian advance, broke; and the Mail quickly lost faith in him and told him to return.
  • (9) You think he’s talking gibberish but there are things going on that you need to piece together.
  • (10) Even if we accept this defence, the basic principle of pushing together independent samples, without any population weighting, is a recipe for producing statistical gibberish.
  • (11) Be sure and set your TV closed captioning to gibberish,” read one tweet.
  • (12) The documentary Reel Bad Arabs does an exhaustive analysis of this stereotype, but examples include Eugene Levy in Father of the Bride II (who gets extra points for donning brown-face and talking in gibberish), Spiros Focás in Jewel of the Nile, Richard Romanus in Protocol.
  • (13) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (14) I don't want to sound pernickety, or apply Goveian strictures to the language, hampering its development and fluidity, but if we allow "issues" to swamp it, we'll soon all be talking deathly national curriculum and corporate gibberish and the world will be a much drearier place.
  • (15) Frank Field, chair of the work and pensions select committee that is carrying out an investigation into the so-called gig economy , said: “Quite frankly the Uber contract is gibberish.
  • (16) It perplexed British critics when it toured here last year, not only because it mingled English with Spanish, French and what sounded alarmingly like gibberish, but because it approached this most familiar of tragedies with a disarming lack of reverence.
  • (17) His argument that there are “alternatives” to abortion when a pregnancy is life-threatening is pure gibberish .
  • (18) The speeches, in a mixture of Hausa and the local Tangale, must have sounded like gibberish to her.
  • (19) When Desiigner becomes president in 12 years and changes the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner to some mindless gibberish about BMWs, it will be their fault.
  • (20) He has described her as 'wasted, talking gibberish'.

Jargon


Definition:

  • (n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
  • (v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
  • (n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
  • (2) But an experienced senior officer said Hogan-Howe had impressed since becoming temporary commissioner, telling junior officers what he wanted in "jargon-free and clear language."
  • (3) Jargon incorporated familiar intonational contours and prosodic features to convey emotional states and communicative functions.
  • (4) Behind these numbers, behind this legal jargon are actual families who have not had justice for decades and decades … some of this can get glossed over when you’re just thinking about it in policy terms.
  • (5) Such attitudes toward illness were found in 19 of 20 jargon subjects, and seven of the comparison group.
  • (6) Carbon dioxide's production of greenhouse gas is not factored into its price – in the jargon, an unpriced externality, he says.
  • (7) According to the criteria of intelligibility, phonemic and semantic paraphasias in spontaneous speech, 4 forms of Wernicke's aphasia are differentiated: 1) with predominantly semantic paraphasias, 2) with semantic jargon, 3) with predominantly phonemic paraphasias and 4) with phonemic jargon.
  • (8) Some former communist countries, known in the jargon as "countries in transition", were allowed to chose a different date because after the collapse of communism many closed heavy industries.
  • (9) Lethal strikes by CIA drones – including two this week alone – have combined with the monitoring and disruption of electronic communications, suspicion and low morale to take their toll on al-Qaida's Pakistani "core", in the jargon of western intelligence agencies.
  • (10) Such jargon can be clarified by questions asked at the moment of discussion.
  • (11) Mobile X-ray generators vary widely in design, cost and radiographic performance and the new designs of recent years have led to the introduction of jargon.
  • (12) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
  • (13) Disease-specific dementias, pseudodementia, and delirium are three clinical situations that may or may not be classified as "reversible dementias," depending on individual training, custom, and jargon.
  • (14) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
  • (15) You have to try and understand the jargon in a room full of white people – who say they know what is best for you.
  • (16) These strategies include employing attentive patient care, attending to the use of jargon, and using self-empowering language.
  • (17) As an academic, he was stern – particularly on bad writing and jargon, for which he had Orwellian distaste.
  • (18) In campaigning jargon, Rahman knows how to maximise his core.
  • (19) In Whitehall jargon, the deals are “bespoke” – in short, varying in significant details – with Greater Manchester getting responsibility for a £6bn budget to integrate health and social care .
  • (20) And, although services like BBC One are far more distinctive, to use the jargon, than they used to be – more origination, much less acquisition, more news, drama, documentary, less entertainment than in the past.