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By
Robert Hohman
Posted: February 1, 2010 at 1:20 pm | Comments 3 Subscribe to this author's RSS feed 
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My daughter is an avid junior anthropologist. She observes her own peer group like a hawk. On the first day of middle school, she drew me a social map of the lunch room, showing the locations of all the middle-school cliques, from jocks to nerds and popular girls and everyone in between. She likes to observe grown-ups, too. The other day she said to me “You and your business friends all speak the same language, y’ever notice? It’s full of jargon and acronyms.”
“We learned that language against our will,” I told her. “You work in the corporate world long enough, and it seeps in.”
“It’s like those tapes that play while you’re sleeping to teach you a foreign language,” she said.
“And now we use corporate speak even when we don’t want to,” I replied.
Our involuntary use of corporate boilerplate is never more in evidence than when we’re sitting at a keyboard. 
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