To call someone a "thought leader” is so thoroughly weird. In it, I hear that those being “led” don't have any worthy thoughts of their own. Or the “leader" is doing Jedi mind tricks on anyone in earshot. Or it's a cult.

#corporatespeak #jargon #doubletalk

"The hideous nature of these words — their facility to warp and impede communication — is also their purpose."

Molly Young in The Vulture on "Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?", from 2020.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html

One of the best articles on this I've read.

Years of being surrounded by business speak have made me want to speak in a natural way, wherever I am.

You could say I am "my authentic self" 😉

#Language #CorporateSpeak #GarbageLanguage

@LadyButters we’ll take it offline. I’ll ping you. #corporatespeak #ITM

#CorporateSpeak is annoying enough to native American English speakers, but it just becomes a sad spectacle to see non-native English speakers struggle to adapt to this.

Like, what the heck is "touching base" if you don't know anything about baseball or even of its existence?

A: I was touch-basing with him yesterday
B: Were you two rubbing your butts together?

(I wrote "touching base" grammatically wrong here just to make my point.)

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Like family
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/like-family

#CorporateSpeak

If someone at a company says something like "welcome to the $company family", I want to ask them,

When your family was struggling with financial difficulties, did you lay off your children because they were not adding value to the bottom line?

#CorporateSpeak