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31 Jan 2007

Corporate Jargon

Posted by: Squareface In: Language| Work life

You know you’re in a corporate office environment when you start proposing everything you suggest; will do things you’re okay with; revert to people to get back to them; conduct meetings for all kinds of discussion; things you understand are noted; you bring up things in regards to a previously discussed issue; and kiv (Keep In View) (Kay-Aye-Vee) anything you don’t want to think about now.

In regards to this site, sorry I haven’t been able to entertain you as I’ve been busy having meetings, preparing for a presentation today, and kiv-ed this site for a while. I will revert to blogging as much as I can, asap.

Disclaimer: The way “revert” and “in regards to” are used here is not Standard English, but have weaved themselves seamlessly into common office lingo. The grammatically correct usage is, “In regard to corporate jargon, it is so widely used that we have become numb to the errors. Try as we might to correct people who use them, they may revert to old ways and continue to perpetuate these expressions.”

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