Vendler has a genuine passion for poetry, and writes about it in a clear style free of academic jargon.

I thought we would be talking about academic jargon.

The book was a good one if you could get past the dense academic jargon.

Readability was emphasized and the use of academic jargon discouraged.

Sailed through college, picked up academic jargon like a duckling gobbles worms.

But the academic jargon is still in full flower.

At times he lapses into turgid academic jargon, in which case it is the reader who must struggle.

She had always been amused by this particular nugget of academic jargon, but here "problematical" seemed to veil something else.

Newcomers may have trouble with some of the academic jargon, but by and large the collection is accessible.

The trouble, he said, is that academia requires intellectuals "to speak in academic jargon rather than a language anyone can understand."