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The Languages of "The Office"

Posted by kdawson on from the talk-amongst-yourselves dept.

Venkat Rao has followed up his analysis of office dynamics as reflected in The Office, which we discussed last month, with one titled Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk. The Office is running a little thin of meaty examples to make his points in delineating the ways of PowerTalk — the language of the Sociopaths — so Rao reaches out to Goodfellas, Wall Street, The Boiler Room, and Making Jack Falcone. The entire analysis illuminates and is illuminated by a diagram of the disparate languages that Sociopaths, the Clueless, and Losers speak to each other and among themselves.

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  1. Re:This is crap. by Disgruntled+Goats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    kdawson hasn't found any FUD articles to post yet so he's scraping the bottom of the barrel.

  2. Re:The Office - movie or TV show? by AlamedaStone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And it's "TPS Report"

    Just an FYI

    Blatant and pathetic attempt at an informative mod.

    Reminds me of how Pepsi was originally made in 1893, and was named "Brad's Drink".

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