There's a lot of focus on the corpspeak vocabulary, which is definitely ridiculous... My current employer incessantly refers to the recent layoff as "ETP" for,

There's a lot of focus on the corpspeak vocabulary, which is definitely ridiculous... My current employer incessantly refers to the recent layoff as "ETP" for, I guess, Employee Termination Program, and the laid off workers as "people affected by ETP". But the thing that drives me insane is the tone of voice and cadence affected by people who are full-time corpspeakers. I can't quite describe it the way it deserves, but there's this singsong sort of rising and falling, yet monotone, sound to it that is so, so artificial and inhuman sounding. Almost every sentence sounds like a question, in that there's an upward inflection at the end, except for the last sentence of each slide/paragraph which ends on a downward note. It's like they are intentionally sounding like they are reading a text that they don't fully understand -- except it's their own words!