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[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/12/2010 12:39 PM, Baker, John wrote:
>         It sounds more like a $1.98 vocabulary to me.

But at least it's not a four-letter word.  Or three-letter.

Joel

> From this
>example, "Word smart for business" apparently endorses the practice of
>using high-falutin terms that the speaker doesn't understand and that
>have no concrete meaning in context.
>
>         Kudos to Dan for finding this.  I bet the book has a lot more
>examples of the worst kind of business-speak.

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