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Why call it corporate speak, when it's plain old lying?
by Ygg2 6y ago
Why call it corporate speak, when it's plain old lying?
- chrisseaton 6y agoBeing more charitable, it's possible they changed their minds, rather than they were lying.
- emteycz 6y agoThat would be really weird. When I think more charitable with Mozilla, I think of "one hand does not know what the other one is doing".
- FireBeyond 6y agoIt wasn't a change of mind. This was the layoff blog post. They just didn't mention it. Tuesday blog post: "Wasmtime is our future!" "We're going to be smaller across the board". Thursday it becomes apparent that the Wasmtime was laid off on that Tuesday. "... specifically, a much smaller future ..."
- estebank 6y agoPo-tay-to, starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum.
- adsjhdashkj 6y agoMany people consider that synonymous. Hell, if anything i tend to consider corporate speak to be even more damning than a lie.
- asddubs 6y agoto me corporate speak is empty platitudes trying to bury the lede, whereas lying is lying (and both are dishonest)
- username90 6y agoSaying "we care deeply at X" can't be proven to be false since they can say "We care about X, we just care more about other things so we fired the X team, it wasn't a lie". That is corp speak, they say stuff that can't be proven to be lies even though they almost surely are lies.
- andrewflnr 6y agoIt's at least a different, interesting kind of lying, worth naming separately.
- foobiekr 6y agoThe weasel nature of corporate speak is beyond a simple lie. People out a lot of work and, perversely, take pride in their ability to say one thing while sounding like saying another, at best, or outright convincingly bullshit. It deserves to be labeled as the worse of the two options because it is.
- liability 6y ago"Corporate speak" is itself an example of corporate speech. It's autological. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word