Lucid Lingo
Communicating... in plain English
Lucid Lingo
Posted on September 27, 11 by Gary Chow | No Comments » | Tags: buzzword bingo, buzzwords, Gobbledygook, jargon, meetings
Anyone who has spent a couple of days in a corporation would know how boring, insufferable and interminable many meetings are. The worse part of course is tolerating the gobbledygook, jargon and buzzwords usually spouted. You know, all the ‘paradigm shifting’, ‘leveraging’ and ‘going forwarding’. Well one way to pass the time is to play [...]
Posted on May 29, 11 by Gary Chow | No Comments »
One of the things you can rely on to lighten up your day is to listen to the news conferences of politicians. What they do with the English language is a marvel. At home, we have our very own Kevin Rudd doing his best to broaden our appreciation of jargon and gobbledygook – a true [...]
Posted on May 18, 11 by Gary Chow | No Comments » | Tags: avoiding gobbledygook, buzzwords, plain English writing
Ever sit in a meeting and walk out an hour later and not have the faintest what was said? If you have, it’s because what you heard wasn’t plain English but more likely corporate gobbledygook, a unique language composed of buzzwords, clichés and jargon. It’s not just the spoken word, of course, gobbledygook is prevalent [...]
Posted on April 15, 11 by Gary Chow | No Comments » | Tags: avoiding gobbledygook, buzzwords, cliche, jargon
I recently finished an assignment at a large government office. It had been a while since I stepped into the hallowed halls of a large organisation so one of the first things that hit me was the degree of spoken mumbo-jumbo. I felt I had wandered into a new world where the lingo was not quite [...]
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