You often get in a similar situation, when you start to study something new to yourself. The question is not about a science and abstruse terms: any community of people incorporated by the common interests or profession develops their slang which a stranger can hardly understand. Actually, a stranger doesn’t have to comprehend a word when hearing the cant; it belongs to a special group of people like, for example, bankers or doctors. However, presently everything is solved simply – any search engine for some seconds will give out a heap of links with explanations of any jargon term.