Now's a good time — if you have the bandwidth — to touch base about a pain point that's evidently bothering many white-collar workers: office jargon. The business buzzwords (or corporate cliches, if ...

Imagine you’re hiring for an important position in your company and two candidates come in to interview. One peppers his sentences with jargon. The other speaks plainly in everyday language. What can ...

If you’re using terms like “make hay” and “peel the onion” in your job ads, stop. Just stop. Even words like “dynamic” and “self-starter” can trip a reader up. According to an analysis of 6.3 million ...

A global survey found most employees are overwhelmed by corporate vocabulary and clichés. But experts say there's a surprising social function behind all that officespeak. At a glance, these phrases ...

Preply, which teaches clients foreign languages they need to thrive at work, also has a fix on the often weird and grating dialect of the workplace–including overused terms that make employees wince.

Connect with your clients (and referral sources) by using their industries’ jargon in your thought leadership marketing. When it comes to attorneys’ content marketing and thought leadership marketing ...

The first time I heard ontological in class, I ignored it. Epistemological soon followed, which—after a smattering of repetitions—merited a Google search. A semester or two later I tossed the ...

Roland Denning hits the books and uncovers some of the obscure origins of film lingo still in everyday use. Every trade has its jargon. New terms need to be invented for new practices, but sometimes ...

This week, the Chronicle of Philanthropy launches a new monthly opinion column — “Watch Your Language” — that aims to help nonprofit professionals reduce jargon and communicate in ways that build ...

With New Zealand passing the Plain Language Act, bidding farewell to inexplicable jargon and complex language from its bureaucracy, it’s time India considers passing similar legislation. Indian laws ...

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