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> On that note, some organizations (e.g. The US Government) have cycles where words go from good, clued in meanings to bad, evil, outsider meanings. Quick anec
by tekdude 6y ago
> On that note, some organizations (e.g. The US Government) have cycles where words go from good, clued in meanings to bad, evil, outsider meanings.
Quick anecdote: I remember the day when "Information Assurance" was out and "Cybersecurity" was in. Took a few years for it to fully propogate in policies and org names... but it did.
They don't even really have the same meaning, but nevertheless... we all had to Find-and-Replace.
- ojilles 6y agoI have seen this in the corporate environment just as much. It becomes somewhat clear after senior leadership changes: after a few months you will hear others use words that were previously only used by the new incoming leader. It's not necessarily linked to what is "hot" right now. For example, I have observed German colleagues copy Italian phrasing in english.
- Silhouette 6y agoIt becomes somewhat clear after senior leadership changes: after a few months you will hear others use words that were previously only used by the new incoming leader. Although this isn't always a good thing. After a UK company I worked for was taken over by a US company, we started to get these nauseating "all hands" propaganda calls, hosted by the senior executives. The rank and file staff were indeed later using words previously used only by the incoming leader: they were the butt of just about every office joke for weeks, and demonstrated the raw contempt that the people doing the real work had for the empty rhetoric the executives delighted in making us all sit through. Maybe it was some 4D chess thing intended to boost morale after the takeover. Yes, I'm sure that was it. :-)