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This post is dripping in PR-speak. “Retransforming” the event? Can we not just have plain English for once?
by jpxw 7y ago
This post is dripping in PR-speak. “Retransforming” the event? Can we not just have plain English for once?
- hcnews 7y agoPlease log a thoughtful suggestion with our nearest customer service representative at your convenience. Hope you have a great rest of the day!
- animalnewbie 7y ago* Customer care executive
- bpodgursky 7y ago"We do not want your blood & mucous on our hands (either literally or figuratively)" "But thousands of people have committed time & energy to this event, and we want to salvage it" "It's now a webcast. Thanks and see you soon." -- Not a Google rep
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoThe target audience of big enterprise conferences like this very much expects and appreciates PR-speak.
- gowld 7y agoThey appreciate it, really?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoReally. It communicates a sense of stability; you've got responsible people in charge, you're careful about what you say and how you say it, and even in the face of disaster you can remain calm and put the best face possible on things.
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- DrScump 7y agoHow about "Re-envisioning the archaic dependence on a deprecated, transportation-dependent zeitgeist into a frictionless, Cloud-leveraging Utopia!"