tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post3084784691253600111..comments2024-03-27T19:00:02.499-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Bookshelf: Business BullshitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-26948123280024155892017-12-28T15:01:29.910-05:002017-12-28T15:01:29.910-05:00We've known about empty bureaucratic language ...We've known about empty bureaucratic language for years, but these new (Silicon Valley-influenced) varieties are stunning smokescreens far worse than the '80s-'90s Dilbertesque CorpoSpeak. "Disruption?" Sounds like a guerilla talking about a small attack his group is planning to carry out. "Best practice?" Lawyerly-Doctorly talk out of a soap opera. The Nazi SS bureaucrats behind the Holocaust talked in an "office speak" to avoid thinking about the killing they were ordering and to hide it from outsiders - this is the faint ghost of that, but for other reasons.Strelnikovhttp://www.exile.runoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-46458598855070371292017-12-28T07:34:54.678-05:002017-12-28T07:34:54.678-05:00Once Business Bullshit is recognized for what it i...Once Business Bullshit is recognized for what it is, it's amusing to listen to the motor-mouths spew it.<br /><br />It's the antithesis of plain spoken informative English. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com