307. The Mystery of Corporate Jargon & Management Speak (Part 2) with Paul Taylor

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🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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'Peeling back the onion' on management speak and corporate jargon. This episode focuses on defining and explaining the examples of language you heard at the beginning of the last episode. You'll hear Paul and me going through all the phrases and by the end you should be able to understand it all, and you could create your own version of bullsh*t bingo! Click here to read definitions and to print some bulls*t bingo cards http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5cf

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information visit teacher Luke.co. UK.
0:07.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to Luke's English podcast. are you I hope you're well hope you're fine
0:14.7	I hope you're in nice comfortable surroundings this is part two in a two-part episode in which I'm talking to
0:21.4	Paul Taylor about management speak and corporate jargon.
0:25.0	Paul used to work for Apple computers, the big corporation that we know,
0:30.0	and while he was there he often used to hear people using this kind of weird language of the corporate world, which we can call corporate jargon or management speak.
0:42.0	It's a sort of a phenomenon that happens in the workplace in English.
0:47.5	And in the first part of this episode,
0:49.1	we basically talked about what is management speak,
0:52.0	what is corporate jargon, is it a bad thing, what is management speak what is corporate jargon is it a bad thing why do people
0:55.4	get so annoyed and irritated by it why do people use management speak at work and
1:01.2	what are some of the arguments for and against it?
1:03.7	Most of the arguments really seem to be against management speak,
1:06.7	including arguments proposed by people who work for the plain English movement.
1:13.3	If you want to hear all of that commentary,
1:15.0	you can just go to the previous episode
1:17.0	of Luke's English podcast and check it out.
1:19.2	What you're going to hear in this episode
1:20.8	is the continuation of my conversation with Paul and in this one we
1:24.0	actually look specifically at some of the the more well-known and well-hated
1:31.0	examples of management speak so we're going to go through a list. In fact
1:35.6	we're going to explain lots of the terms that you heard me use at the very
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