"Jargon Reducer was a software art project which manipulates text. It removes or reveals words which might be considered 'jargon,' specialized language that is not a part of the common vocabulary. The project invites the user to input text for jargon filtering.
The project also comes with 12 significant texts ready for filtering demonstration and analysis. These include excerpts from: Tristan Tzara's 1918 The Dada Manifesto, The U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, Genesis, Aristotle's Poetics, The Four Nobel Truths, Wikipedia on Critical Thinking, Dick Higgin's Statement of Intermedia, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, The Communist Manifesto, The Malleus Maleficarum, The PNAC's 1997 Statement of Principles; and Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech.
Jargon Reducer is a humorous, yet poignant entanglement on the culture and politics of language.
Audio includes typewriter typing while the logo animates and while processing text;
and a cowbell ding when text processing completes." -- Nanette Wylde at preneo.org
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