What professionals, especially Information Technologist, do when trying to explain problems you are having. The over use of inside jargon and useless facts that mean nothing to the person seeking help. Doctors, lawyers, IT, and more fall into this trap all the time, rendering themselves useless.
I lost all my data on my hard drive and all the idiot from IT could do was tech talk me to death.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since OβConnelβs time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before OβConnel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)