The Etymology of Corporate Jargon

Or, “Why do business-people talk like that?”

ThinkGrowth.org
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5 min readJan 17, 2016

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My key objective with this short dissertation is to create some transparency around the origins of the obfuscatory lexicon associated with specific industries and enterprises, and to then elucidate the myriad of hypotheses as to why such lexicon is leveraged in these contexts.

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Full-time stay-at-home dad, part-time ghostwriter, retired pub musician, recovering marketer