Jargon Unchained

Jargon Unchained

by Len Guff
Jargon Unchained

Jargon Unchained

by Len Guff

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Overview

”To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.” - George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

Jargon Unchained is a hater's guide, a book of how-not-to's, an anti-business manual for the disenfranchised office worker. And it's funny because it's true.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940046403039
Publisher: Len Guff
Publication date: 11/06/2014
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 1,028,019
File size: 116 KB

About the Author

Len Guff is just like you. He's worked in several industries. Telecoms, finance, media, catering.

But it hasn’t enlightened him. It’s taught him that there isn’t a profession in this world that hasn't been tainted by the obfuscations of business jargon. The Jargonistas are out there and they're multiplying like bacteria in the Petri dish of office life.

Len still works in an office, prepared to struggle on as his mother tongue crumbles around him, the only thing keeping him sane is the knowledge that only a third of his day will be infiltrated by the doublespeak that blights the collective consciousness.

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