Noel Stated

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    In general I do not draw well with literary men—not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.
    David Lehman (b. 1948)