Banned jargon list

[Landslide]

I ticked off 94 that I've used or regularly encountered in my workplace.

I feel dirty and wrong...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7949077.stm

 

[snapper_37]

Thankfully, I struggled to tick off more than half a dozen. Must be the circles I move in.

 

[ChrisKH]

24.

You can't avoid 'em in my line of work.

 

[Chuffy]

I ticked off 94 that I've used or regularly encountered in my workplace.

I feel dirty and wrong...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7949077.stm

I can probably tick off about 90% of them too. Thing is, I also know what they mean and when to use them. And they do have meaning, they communicate concepts that would otherwise take a paragraph to explain. Creating lists of 'banned words' is just cretinous foot in mouth stupidity. Thanks LGA.

 

[Landslide]

And they do have meaning, they communicate concepts that would otherwise take a paragraph to explain.

True in some cases, but "Predictors of Beaconicity"?

 

[Chuffy]

True in some cases, but "Predictors of Beaconicity"?

To every rule an exception....
No, I've go no idea WTF (quick, ban this internet jargon!) that means!

 

[Over The Hill]

I think that we can conclude that the Local Government Associaton has not got enough work to do.

 

[Chuffy]

I think that we can conclude that the Local Government Associaton has not got enough work to do.

Providing cut'n'paste copy for the Daily M*il is a vital piece of work.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I've never heard of coterminosity before. Is it good? Is it bad?

One of my previous line managers used to call company cascades golden showers - you got p155ed on from above.

 

[marzjennings]

I think that list contains 99% of the words i use everyday. Living in leftpondia, jargon is the norm for communication in the office.

And why would 'welcome' be banned?

 

[mickle]

I got one; mechanism. The list didn't specify front or rear tho...

 

[gavintc]

Many of these are just ordinary words; priority, beacon, capacity etc.

I propose the list has more to do with the predicted reading age of the population than any attempt to ban office 'buzz words'

 

[Amanda P]

Many of these are just ordinary words; priority, beacon, capacity etc.

Yes, but they become jargon when used only in a metaphorical sense. When they say my employer has beacon status, I don't think that means it's been set on fire so that it can be seen from a great distance...

Or when nouns are used as verbs, as in "actioned" or "leveraged". We have verbs for those things, why not use them?

And when did "impact" take over from "effect" or "affect"? When you say "what impact will X have...?" you imply that the effect will be bad. It might not be. You can, apparently, have positive impacts....

/rant

 

[beanzontoast]

Jargon is too often a lazy way of speaking rather than a succinct expression of a concept. People resort to it rather than having to think for themselves and put together something original in plain language to expresse their thoughts and ideas.