LBO-Talk March 2001: queries (fwd)

[Carl Remick]

>So all this fun that we are having trying to trace the origin of the use of 
>"space" here (and I just contributed a post of my own to the fun) really 
>doesn't get to the point, which is the irrepressable urge that business 
>people (and not just them, by the way) have to put things in roundabout 
>ways that "sound" more intelligent than they are (that is, if they aren't 
>actively obscuring or euphemizing issues).

Welcome to my world.  As a corporate propagandist of long-standing, I can 
assure you that words are used mainly in an incantatory way in business 
communications.  Execs, hell-bent on avoiding any sort of accountability, 
hide out in thickets of meaningless jargon and seek safety in numbers, 
employing exactly the same limited set of buzzwords -- no matter what 
industrial sector they're in -- at any particular time.  Of course, having 
been around this list long enough to savor the higher fatuousness of the 
litcrit crowd, I see that this will to incomprehensibility is not restricted 
to commerce.

Carl

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