Every field has its jargon, its specialized terms a phrases. Lawyers have their writs, torts, and depositions. Doctors speak not of cuts or scrapes but lesions. Computer specialists banter about baud rates, RAM, and downloading. In the legal, medical, and other scientific fields, such jargon is usually employed for the sake of technical accuracy.
Many parents say that they sometimes find the jargon of education mystifying and intimidating.
When I stop and think about it, I have to agree with them. I point this out in an attempt to make educators myself included hear the way we speak. In my head and yours, I want an alarm to sound buzzers, bells, the Stars and Stripes Forever whenever we say or hear a term that only we as educators are likely to use. Sometimes our motivation for using jargon is relatively benign, as when we engage in the little acts of conformity that hold all groups together. At such times we are, in effect, repeating rather than speaking.