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CMV: Most corporate jargon is harmless slang and we shouldn't get so worked up about it.

I work teaching critical thinking and deception awareness for businesses and schools.

One of the issues I come up against is the campaign against corporate jargon, idioms and words that only seem to exist in the business world.

"I don't have band-width for that""I'll parallel both options""What are the learnings from this project?"

Some of this language is deliberately deceptive. For example, saying "downsizing" instead of "firing people". This is bad communication that I do not defend.

However, most of the language is just alternate words for existing concept. The argument is often made that, because of this, we don't NEED the corporate version. e.g. "Why say learnings, we already have LESSONS?"

This ignores the existence of both synonyms, nuanced differences, and what this language is: slang.

Most of the language we cringe at, is usually just slang used between people in a specific community. It's no different from cockney, leetspeak, and teen slang. It's used to build affinity between people and create a sense of community.

It can be overused and it can be used in the wrong forum but I don't believe that makes the language inherently bad.

I believe that we hate this slang over other types of slang is because we don't like the people who use it. It reminds of American Psycho businessmen stuck in their own bubble of oblivious privilege.

I think people WITHIN that community hate it because of what it says about them. I read this on twitter:

>"I want to stave off the corporate brain worms as long as I can. Maybe if I continually re-read stuff like this it'll keep them out forever, and then I can die in peace knowing I never became "the man" "

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In other words, our problem with corporatespeak is not the language but the people who use it.
gpt
The problem is that unlike teenage slang or regional slang, this isn’t coming from your peers, it’s coming from HR. And HR can fire you. 

That means there is an element of coercion to this kind of corporate Newspeak.