Quote of the Day (Erin Mundahl, on Business English as a ‘Sea of Dead Metaphors’)
“We've tacitly agreed to network and strategize
(though thankfully synergy has been beaten back). It's a strange new LinkedIn
world where being ‘offboarded’ from a ‘jobvite’ because it wasn't the right fit
and ‘onboarded’ by different HR faces in another building across town has
replaced, in plain English, being fired from a place you didn't like and hired
by one you do. Fear not, soon you too will love Business English….It's a sea of
dead metaphors and quirky catchphrases that have lost both their quirk and
their catch.” —Erin Mundahl, “Words at Work,” The Weekly Standard, May
16, 2016
“We've tacitly agreed to network and strategize
(though thankfully synergy has been beaten back). It's a strange new LinkedIn
world where being ‘offboarded’ from a ‘jobvite’ because it wasn't the right fit
and ‘onboarded’ by different HR faces in another building across town has
replaced, in plain English, being fired from a place you didn't like and hired
by one you do. Fear not, soon you too will love Business English….It's a sea of
dead metaphors and quirky catchphrases that have lost both their quirk and
their catch.” —Erin Mundahl, “Words at Work,” The Weekly Standard, May
16, 2016
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