Jargon (n) - The Concise Oxford Defintion

There has been a lull in blogging (3 whole days!!!).
Attribute this either to
a. The Prattlers running out of content (which is as probable as hair growing on my head or Sandeep eating rice. Note: The former being more probable)
b. Heavy workload (academics) taking a toll on the Dainik Jargon team. (Which is as probable as the probability mentioned in point a)
OR
c. The state of astonishment/shock of finding Pradeep(YS) getting out from his CFA books and blogging!!! (Whoa!!! Pradeep & Blogging - Now this seems to be quite a good reason for the relative inactivity on this blog).

I had to upload this post despite staunch protests from Sandeep (who called this definition sub-standard). I may be ostracized by JKS for this but I had to acknowledge the efforts taken by Akshita and Roopam who, painstakingly, searched for the definition of Jargon in the library.
Now, any person with a teeny weeny bit of common sense would ask, "Why did they have to hunt in the library? Couldn't they Google it out?". The answer isn't, cliched it may sound, rocket science. They visited the library to hunt for an "English Communication books" amidst the Finance and Marketing volumes BECAUSE Akshita had a 'Dell' laptop and internet simply doesn't work on a 'Dell' laptop. (P.S. Roopam had not brought his HP to college).

Now for the definition of Jargon according to this Englisss communication text book:
"Jargon means unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing familiar only to a group or profession. It is full of special words known only to members of the group. When it is used outside the group, it becomes unintelligible." (E.g. for the highlighted statement: The 'traumatised' expression on the face of one of our fellow batchmates (an unfortunate soul who hasn't come into contact with the prattlers), when Harsha said "Arre bhai, did the driver had a 'traumatised' expression on his face?")

The book also goes on to state some of the causes for generation and outburst(s) of jargon (and gems):
a. Information Overload (E.g. "Ma'am..ma'am...Deliverables)
b. Time Pressure (of CFA) (E.g. "Embellishment is half the fun")
c. Communication Climate (E.g. Gtalk status messages like "Smitten by the Refreshingly Spontaneous..."
d. Noise ("Aspirational value")
e. Mechanical (in this case Vocabulary) failure ("Situational Innuendo")

The authors Ramachandra, Chandrashekara, Shivakumara (No..No..It is not a single South Indian Name - they are 3 authors of the same book) have also added a few 'gems' of their own:
"Communication usually fails - except by chance" and
"If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just the way it does the most harm"

Now we know why people don't read such books.