Dictionarese: (n.) The kind of language employed by schoolkids, managers, and bureaucrats trying to sound impressive, marked by long words and pompous phrasing, as in "every email I get from them is written in Dictionarese. The last one begins "It is our endeavor to provide delight to our customers (employees)...We thank you for being our valuable customer and seek your continual support for this arduous yet fulfilling journey towards excellence and growth." and all I could think was that I am soooooo not delighted."
Note: Dictionarese is the common language of college application essays and is rampant during SAT/GRE season.
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This is a blog of "new" words and phrases that have been used at work that I feel warrant a wider audience...
Yackage: (n.) Incessant, meaningless chatter.
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We would like to take this moment to generously thank our service professionals for their devotion to our single minded pursuit of personal capital expansion. We also would like to congratulate you on your continued journey towards self growth and fulfillment. We are positive that your egress will lead to a fruitful and bountiful position.
Firings aren't fun in dictionarese.
totally agree that it seems to strike high-schools around the college app season :)
Oh yes... the contagion is severe as they attempt to "display their ratiocinative and excogitative processes to optimal advantage in order to present themselves as superlative and unsurpassed candidates for admission to the elite institutes of higher learning of their preference."
And stuff.
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