#managementspeaks

[w3global]

7 Things To Say At Work 

[seasidelodges-blog]

oh my goodness!!! im so sorry folks, i had a bad headache again and couldnt confirm your reservations. aaah, so many at once! thank you in particular who attempted “’sup nerd” in managementspeak. im very amused! all of you are confirmed thus far  ♫ ♫

[spydre]

ManagementSpeak: It’s your call. Translation: It’s your call so long as your call is the same as my call.

https://issurvivor.com/2018/12/10/managementspeak-12-10-2018/

[phonetish]

The 20th Century is often called "The American Century". The 21st Century is looking a lot less American. To be sure, it's not looking like the British century either. That came the century before. American culture (and words) could easily spread in the 20th century because it was hard to produce and distribute recorded entertainment, but the US had the capacity and the economy and the marketing savvy to do so [And I mustn't forget the Marshall Plan, which my colleague just mentioned to me.] America was inventing and manufacturing all sorts of things and putting names on them and selling them everywhere. Two world wars and the cold war had Americans stationed all over the world using their slang in the presence of young recruits from other countries. The 21st century is looking rather different. The 20th century brought us talking pictures and television. Radio, the most affordable form of broadcast, remained a more local proposition--though the recorded music could be imported. (Though the word radio, well that's an Americanism.) The 21st century is the time of the internet and of personali{s/z}ed entertainment. The popular songs are less universally popular, because people have more access to more different kinds of music on download. Instead of two or three or four choices on television, there are hundreds. And if you don't like what you're seeing you can go on YouTube or SoundCloud (or other things I'm too old and [orig. AmE] uncool to know about) and find all sorts of people doing all sorts of things. People go on the internet and meet each other and talk to each other, meaning that there's more opportunity than ever for there to be exchange of words between people, rather than just reception of words from the media. The slangs that young people use are sometimes local to their school or area and sometimes particular to an international online gaming community or music fandom. The notion of community, for many people, has internationali{s/z}ed. Language is moving in different ways now than it ever had the chance to move in the 20th century.

The scale(s) is/are still tipped in American vocabulary's favo(u)r. But as far as I can see, there's not a lot of reason to believe that the degree of the imbalance is rapidly increasing. Yes, the number of American words in British English constantly increases, but there's more westward traffic now, more UK coining of managementspeak, and new local youth cultures making their own words in Britain. The tide hasn't turned, but there is (mixed metaphor alert) (orig. AmE) pushback. And if English continues to be popular as a global lingua franca (due to its momentum, rather than the foreign and cultural policies of the UK and US), then more words may be coming from other places altogether. 

[raposthumus]

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[seasidelodges-blog]

uhh, so management has been talking with one of you. do you want me to help you out there? im not sure how fluent you are, i can decode it for you if you want.

also quick lesson time!!!!

when youre using managementspeak, every letter uses 2 digits! for example!

01 corresponds to A

10 corresponds to J

so you can see how things would get a little confusing if you typed 010, and thats all! none of us would know what you mean. instead, try 0110 and there you have it! AJ for applejuice!

[spydre]

ManagementSpeak: After a three-month study, our $1,000-an-hour consultant gave us this important recommendation.

Translation: We fired all the staffers who mentioned this idea in the years before.

[spydre]

ManagementSpeak: You need to perform due diligence. Translation: I don’t understand it, and don’t want to do it.