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In Ruth Kinzey's August 2010 Triad Business Journal guest column, she cited the pitfalls of relying too much on company jargon.
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Watch what you say: How jargon can be confusing >
Every industry has words to which it has assigned special meanings. For example, when I was in trucking industry public relations years ago, I captured the attention of high school students on career days when I told them our company had "reefers." (For those unfamiliar with trucking jargon, a “reefer” means a temperature-controlled trailer, not marijuana as the student undoubtably thought.)

Ruth Kinzey
Triad Business Journal - 8/13/2010