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Anton Savage: ‘Corporate jargon is a language that feels good but often means nothing’
Corporate jargon has infiltrated every echelon of our daily lives, including how politicians communicate with the masses. But who is it impressing? Most of us, it turns out
Former governor of New York Mario Cuomo liked to say that politicians campaigned in poetry and governed in prose. In the modern era a more appropriate line might be that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in corporate jargon. The lexicon once reserved for company seminars and PowerPoint townhalls is now the lingua franca of western democracies. Like bacteria, it spread through the European body-politic, leaving us with language that feels good but often means ...
