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vundercind
on Oct 9, 2024
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Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apo...
Corporate English is a blight. So many ugly substitutions, overloading existing words, for perfectly good
and common
words we already have.
mwigdahl
on Oct 9, 2024
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It is my belief that you may not fully leverage the synergistic potential of the value-added verbosity inherent in corporate linguistics.
daveslash
on Oct 9, 2024
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Agreed. It's very important to maximize cross-functional coherence to capitalize on strategic imperatives for maximal growth opportunities.
sokoloff
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Unless there’s a fulcrum involved, I don’t want to read the word “leverage”.
wizzwizz4
on Oct 9, 2024
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The fulcrum is externalities. Good ask, though!
lxgr
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Let's double-click on that: There's value in expensive signalling, and sometimes the expense is an intentional (or at least tolerated) lack of aesthetics.
vundercind
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We should take this offline so we can really zoom in.
Muromec
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Corporate life is just really boring and this kind of nonsense is understood as
fun
by people engaging in it.
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