Jargon is often used to obfuscate or hide the meaning of things to those not in the group employing such specialized language. This puts outsiders at a disadvantage, more vulnerable to predation, slick sales pitches, and con artists. Often it is just a verbal form of shorthand, used in a specialized area to abbreviate, or cut to the chase, a much longer enunciation employing simple common language. But in either case, it hides knowledge in professional isolation, and puts walls between people, barriers between management and labor, oppressors and the oppressed. Jargon causes us to ever more finely divided in quantitative analysis and linguistic confusion. Jargon is not healthy for civilization. Recall military jargon!