In this weeks news, more games are going LAN based as the threat of games being turned off at any time looms in the background
Although they are sometimes used similarly, jargon and slang are not the same. Often, they both involve an informal use of a term to communicate an idea, so there’s a bit of overlap between the two words. However, slang is simply informal language, whereas jargon is specific to a group of people.
For example, most English speakers know that “cool” is slang for something that’s good, but only a plumber would know that “brass” is plumbing jargon for a faucet or fixture.