Why do corporations speak the way they do?
Robots, hucksters, dope, and slang-parrots translates:
technological automation;
marketing, sales, influencers, etc.;
incentives that promote addiction, and;
mindlessness around language.
Black Hole Words: To me, these are words that are commonplace in a given industry but everyone has a slightly different definition of them. You can have a whole meeting and if you don’t define the word, you just wasted an hour of everyone’s time. They suck all the meaning and consensus out of a room, out of a business, and out of a company.
Molly Graham • “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions
bureaucracy and technology breed jargon.