Friday, 6 March 2026

let’s take this offline (13. 239)

Though properly, despite its obscurity to outgroups of a given profession or industry and reputation as gatekeeping and kind of an insult to expert language, jargon is not the same as non-technical corporate lingo, we rather enjoyed this omnibus of laments and grievances of the register of vicious terminology that has seeped into common-parlance as reviled words and phrases. I think I am guilty during a meeting or in an email of using many of these—except for the most egregious in synergy and let’s circle back, most of them euphemistic in nature covering up a lack of actionable knowledge and blunting direction or a method for looking like a team-player and acknowledging, repackaging previous contributions. What do you think? Tell us your most odious malapropisms and mixed-metaphors.