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Except that "one head of lettuce" is a widely-known "measure" that most people are going to understand. Most of this business-speak jargon is incomprehensible
by kelnos 2y ago
Except that "one head of lettuce" is a widely-known "measure" that most people are going to understand.
Most of this business-speak jargon is incomprehensible to people who haven't heard it before in the workplace. It seems "normal" to people like us here on HN because most of us have interacted with these sorts of business types (or are even one of them), but I would guess that most of the people who know what a head of lettuce represents would have no idea what ROI or noun-form "solve" means.
- Terr_ 2y agoI never said the marriage satire was normal. (Although, in that fictional world, those two fictional people seem to be surprisingly satisfied with their choices of language.) Just that "simple" is deceptive, non-universal, and sometimes contradictory.