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Yes, I do. When people mention that somebody uses a lot of jargon, they are generally annoyed by that jargon.
No. I see it as entirely neutral. It's just words that are used in certain fields that may not be well-known, or have different meanings, outside of those fields.
Like @owlman5, I think it's disapproving.

If I was in a group of people ~ let's call them Group A ~ and I wanted to refer to the language used specifically by Group A, I'd probably use a term like specialized vocabulary ... to avoid calling it 'jargon' (unless I particularly wanted to show my disapproval of it, of course).
Yes, the people who use the "jargon" don't think of it as being jargon so the term is mostly used to describe it as something that is "other" or strange or unnecessarily complicated.
Why does he keep using medical jargon like "patella"? It's just my knee cap.
I'm with HP on this. There's nothing inherently disapproving in the word. You use it disapprovingly, but context needs to make that clear (as it does in Myridon's example).
I'm with HP on this. There's nothing inherently disapproving in the word. You use it disapprovingly, but context needs to make that clear (as it does in Myridon's example).
The dictionary quoted says "usually disapproving." Not always, usually. That's a technical term from medicine. (neutral) That's medical jargon. (slightly negative). You'd have to provide more context to show it's neutral.
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