The White Flag AA meeting (p. 360)
And there’s an off-putting jargon in the Fellowship, a psychobabbly dialect that’s damn near impossible to follow at first, says Ken Erdedy, the college-boy ad exec semi-new at Ennet House, complaining to Gately at the White Flag meeting’s raffle-break.
Context
Erdedy — upscale, Tufts-Harvard-inflected, professionally fluent — hits Boston AA and finds it a foreign language: a "psychobabbly dialect" he can't follow. His raffle-break complaint opens the language-critique thread that Joelle will escalate from vocabulary to grammar six pages later; the educated newcomers' first line of resistance to AA is linguistic.