Saturday, March 19

Gobbledygook

If the English inculcated officialese and with it letters starting with "Vide your letter dated......please be advised that blahblah or we are in receipt of your letter blah blah" then the IT revolution in the country is shunning it out, only to replace it with Jargonese.

In my work, i increasingly meet IT workers and their conversation is punctuated by ITish words like matrix for a section or a set, management contingencies for problems etc..

The way it is embracing the population, it looks like Jargons will be the way of life.

People are taught and begin to believe that this is the proper language. It's like a virus; it simply spreads and no one notices that they are infected

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