[Ads-l] Garbage language, corporate-speak, bloated business jargon

[Dan Goncharoff]

Yeah, that, what he said.
DanG


On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> A similar point is made in this Slate piece critiquing the New York/Vulture
> piece:
>
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>
> https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/02/garbage-language-business-speak-defense.html
> "Parallel path," which Young targets for particular scorn, is a succinct
> description of how a series of equally important but independent tasks
> should proceed -- in parallel without either blocking the other. It's more
> descriptive than saying "do both at the same time," and much quicker than
> saying "these two tasks are related in their end goal but independent of
> one another; please push each as far as you can, and we'll go with whatever
> comes to fruition first."
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:01 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I read the language differently. The reference to "parallel-path"
> > recognizes that there is a process to producing a formal document, and
> the
> > request is to push both versions through the process. It's more
> complicated
> > than "produce two versions".
> >
> > When life is complicated, sometimes simple language is less clear.
> >
> > DanG
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:22 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I recommend this article. *The paragraph after the author's name
> and
> > > > publication data is apparently the publisher's comment on it,
> > > > exemplifying and parodying the phenomenon.* Below the horizontal line
> > > > I've quoted the first two paragraphs of the article itself.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark Mandel
> > > >
> > > https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html
> > > *...*
> > > > > Let’s drop a pin in this and take it off-line so we can futureproof
> > > > the intiative with these key learnings and co-create innovative
> > win-wins
> > > > that require an omni-channel push but no critical ask. Actually,
> let’s
> > > not.
> > > >
> >
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