Editing Jargon (section)

===Fields using the term===
In linguistics, it is used to mean "specialist language",<ref>{{cite book|last=Allan|first=Keith|title=The English Language and Linguistics Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tppMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|year=2017|isbn=978-1-349-92395-3|page=18|publisher=Macmillan Education UK }}</ref> with the term also seen as closely related to [[slang]], [[argot]] and [[cant (language)|cant]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Xdv4FTyXfkC&pg=PP7 | title=Slang: The People's Poetry| isbn=9780199986538| last1=Adams| first1=Michael| date=2012-09-01| publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> Various kinds of language peculiar to ingroups can be named across a [[semantic field]]. [[Slang]] can be either culture-wide or known only within a certain group or subculture. [[Argot]] is slang or jargon [[obfuscation|purposely used to obscure meaning]] to outsiders. Conversely, a [[lingua franca]] is used for the opposite effect, helping communicators to overcome unintelligibility, as are [[pidgin]]s and [[creole language]]s. For example, the [[Chinook Jargon]] was a pidgin.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/jargon-linguistics | title=Jargon &#124; linguistics| newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> Although technical jargon's primary purpose is to aid [[technical communication]], not to exclude outsiders by serving as an argot, it can have both effects at once and can provide a technical ingroup with [[shibboleth]]s. For example, medieval [[guild]]s could use this as one means of informal [[protectionism]]. On the other hand, jargon that once was obscure outside a small ingroup can become generally known over time. For example, the terms ''[[bit]], [[byte]],'' and ''[[hexadecimal]]'' (which are [[glossary of computer terms|terms from computing jargon]]<ref name="CB">{{cite web|url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=10866| title=Buzzwords– bang * splat !| last=Lundin|first=Leigh| date=2009-12-31| publisher=Criminal Brief|work=Don Martin School of Software}}</ref>) are now recognized by many people{{who|date=May 2025}} outside [[computer science]].{{fact|date=May 2025}}