Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
I think without jargon it would extremely tedious for experts to communicate amongst themselves. The fact that people who think they're experts use jargon to project authority or at least familiarity with a particular subject doesn't detract from the need of genuine experts.



I agree. jargon seems to arise from coining a term that fills a specific need in a group that shares a specific interest. Skiers discussing snow conditions or engineers planning a project, etc. Describing snow as cornmeal lets me say in one word what would take a sentence of more to explain to someone who doesn't know the jargon.
There is a grey area as well where jargon and technical terms overlap.