Posts Tagged ‘jargon’

Buzzword overload!

From day one, when you enter a workplace, you will be slammed with acronyms, jargon, and best of all buzzwords! You have no need to worry, the Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary comes to the rescue. All you do is search for your buzzword (or business slang) and it will populate the definition). A few of my favorite more phrases are below:
Blamestorming [v.] Meeting to discuss a failure and… » Continue

January 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Communication, conversation, jargon, small+talk | 4 comments»

Use and Abuses of Jargon

The problem we suffer from today, in business and elsewhere, is the use of jargon and consulting BS by people who neither know what they mean precisely, nor expect those they’re speaking to understand them. Indeed, that’s often the point: to use language that you hope makes you sound like an expert before a non-expert audience. » Continue

November 14 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: BS, buzzwords, Communication, jargon, presentation, writing | 2 comments»