Agreed. I am an English speaker and fluent in the corp speak dialect and at least to me a lot of these terms (maybe all of them?) have different connotations th

Agreed. I am an English speaker and fluent in the corp speak dialect and at least to me a lot of these terms (maybe all of them?) have different connotations than what the author thought was a totally equivalent English word (e.g. "let's meet" and "let's sync" convey very different implications, to me). And why would that be surprising? I'm doing and behaving in different ways at work than I do outside of it so new words to accurately capture that are sensible. When I play survival-crafting video games with friends that requires elaborate coordination I find myself slipping into corp speak for some things and it's because we are then doing the sort of communication that corp speak can render most clearly. At the same time I don't deny that fluently using the words is a way of signaling conformity or insiderness to the corp culture and that is distinct from the words' usefuleness. It's probably this part of them that rankles HN folks, but they are just wrong when they say the words are 100% signaling with no inherent value. The part about how the language objectifies people or is anti-social strikes me as pure speculation by the way-- I don't find anything humans do to be particularly inhuman and definitely not corp-speak. It signals participation in what is an outgroup to some so they dislike it but shouldn't pat themself on the back for disliking it.