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Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the preach-on-brother dept.

theodp writes "Does it bother you that churches have a Mission Statement touting their Core Values? That even the CIA has a Vision? In his book Death Sentences: How Clichés, Weasel Words and Management-Speak are Strangling Public Language and in this Newsweek interview, Australian author Don Watson argues it's time to protest the mind-numbing business jargon that infests our schools, churches and political speech. Examples that people have sent to him can be found on Watson's website."

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  1. Re:Churches? by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Troll

    It seems like everything else the Church is supposed to do springs from those two commands.

    Unfortunately, they seem to pay their mission statement as much heed as most large companies.

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  2. Re:Apologists by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps YOU are not a programmer.

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