Today on Forbes.com, Christopher Steiner writes about meaningless words and expressions in everyday business jargon, including one of my peeves: solution.
This word has come to mean everything from the traditional way to solve a mathematical proof to a suite of efficiency-enhancing software–and it is perhaps the epitome of lingual laziness. Says Glen Turpin, a communications consultant: “It usually refers to a collection of technologies too abstract or complex to describe in a way that anyone would care about if they were explained in plain English.”
I like the convoluted graphic they chose for the slide show.
Looks like somebody scraped the article for a CNN iReport. While I do like the idea of a wider audience, how do they get away with wholesale copying?
Blogger Rita Glynn Smith scrapes the story in her defense of “full service.”
Now on Yahoo! Finance too. Sweet.
…and Kelowna.com.
great post as usual!
…and Kelowna.com.