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Jargonomics

  • Posted by Ross
  • 24 June 2008

There’s been a raft of articles recently regarding management-speak and other jargon, which I’ve found vaguely amusing… I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard bosses talk about “leveraging” and “granularity”. But today, after hearing it *so* many times, I just had to vent my spleen about another piece of mangled English.
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More word play

  • Posted by Ross
  • 1 November 2006

Following on from this post, and the regular mention of all-noun headlines over at the BBC’s Magazine Monitor, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of “verb-ed” nouns.
Just today, I’ve received an email that claims to have “excerpted” a section of another document.
Anyone else got any good examples? I may start collecting them….