Pentagonese

This sense was narrowed to a form of apple-polishing in Pentagonese.

In Pentagonese, the word has gained a new metaphoric extension.

To them, Pentagonese is a laughable language.

At moments like this, Clayson tended to lapse into Pentagonese.

Nonetheless, New Age jargon seemed to be creeping into normal Pentagonese.

"Degraded" is Pentagonese for "hurt" and shows that the jargon of our military mind is invincible.

Had he spoken modern Pentagonese, he would have called his horse cavalry the third "leg" of the strategic "triad."

Both began as Pentagonese, with prebrief launched in 1982 ("extensive prebriefs and sequential reviews within the Component").

Starkweather flipped a sheet of paper crammed with single-spaced Pentagonese and rubbed his tired eyes, glancing out the picture window to rest them.

Thus was the gulf war II locution firmly embedded (verb, past participle) in Pentagonese.

Murder board is Pentagonese, though some say the phrase originated in the interrogation methods used by intelligence analysts seeking to establish a defector's bona fides.

In the above outburst of Pentagonese, the pronoun that the spokesman chose in referring to a unit was not it or its but them or their.

In Pentagonese, it was GloMo, global-mobile.

Their facilities are being "degraded" - Pentagonese for worn down - but not eliminated, but then facilities matter less to Baghdad than manpower.

Although it is generally readable, it is marred by an overly generous sprinkling of acronyms, Pentagonese and references to people not widely known to the public.

But Milstar - that's Pentagonese for the Military, Strategic, Tactical and Relay system - is the pterodactyl of the satellite age.

Those areas were promptly dubbed no-fly zones by anonymous speakers of Pentagonese, and the curious locution was picked up - uncritically at first - by the media.

Edward Lavitt of New York City, who sent in this citation of Pentagonese, writes, "I nonagree with his usage."

"Thaes not what I didl" "Granted, not all by yourself, but you provided the-wbat the hell's that God-awful Pentagonese?

In its current voguish sense, it is a hifalutin word for "measurement," carrying an overtone in both Foundationese and Pentagonese of the estimation of "long-term outcomes."

While English people are more or less immune from the mincing style of the Mayflower's granddaughters, Pentagonese has seriously infected the language of British trade union leaders.

Rediffusion Simulation Ltd., a British subsidiary of Hughes, today introduced Commander, billed in the company's Pentagonese literature as "the first interactive public entertainment simulator."

In airline-speak and Pentagonese, the idea seems to be to build up the number of words or syllables in a sentence at the expense of its color, vitality, and charm.

MOPP is an acronym for Mission Oriented Protective Posture - Pentagonese for "Put on your chemical protective clothing!"

Illinois: Which is worse: the Republican Mark Kirk's failure to speak "Pentagonese" or the Democrat Alexi Giannoulias's comfort with Obama-speak?