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Career adviser Penelope Trunk offers a non-nonsense dictionary for parsing office-speak.
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Start to pepper up your office-speak, and that pesky hoi polloi will have nothing on you!
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After scrawling 'awk. exp.' in the margins of many an essay lately, this list of 'Fifty office-speak phrases you love to hate'compiled by the BBC proved particularly resonant.
Procrastination 102 Kirsty 2008
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I'd add 'it's all good' too, but perhaps that's just inarticulate young people rather than office-speak.
Procrastination 102 Kirsty 2008
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Thank you so much for the link to the list, 'Fifty office-speak phrases you love to hate'.
Procrastination 102 Kirsty 2008
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After scrawling 'awk. exp.' in the margins of many an essay lately, this list of 'Fifty office-speak phrases you love to hate'compiled by the BBC proved particularly resonant.
Archive 2008-06-01 Kirsty 2008
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Career adviser Penelope Trunk offers a non-nonsense dictionary for parsing office-speak.
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Just curious why you use the weird office-speak phrase “reach out” as a substitute for conventional words and phrases such as contact, call, talk to, write, etc.
AP Claims Shepard Fairey Admits To Lying And Trying To Destroy Evidence; His Counsel Quits (Updated) Jason Kincaid 2005
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
alexz commented on the word office-speak
Vice has an article on 'Soul-Sucking Office-Speak"
http://www.vice.com/read/evolution-of-office-speak-666
November 16, 2014