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Book Synopsis The Buzzword Dictionary by : John Walston
Download or read book The Buzzword Dictionary written by John Walston and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompous jargon pervades English these days, from corporate speak to silly legalisms. This lighthearted look at how English is being mangled reveals the underlying meaning, as well as the attitudes behind the meaning, of more than 1,000 buzzwords. Readers will discover that "learning opportunity" is a nice way of saying "mistake;" a "lawn mullet" is a yard that's neatly trimmed out front but growing long in the back; and a "meanderthal" is someone who has a hard time getting to the point when telling a story. Accompanied by 15 illustrated cartoons, this comical look at language shows how combining words can give way to new meanings.
Book Synopsis Startup Buzzword Dictionary by : Matt C Smith
Download or read book Startup Buzzword Dictionary written by Matt C Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cartoon illustrated Startup Buzzword Dictionary that explains 23 of the most common buzzwords, from boostrapping to exit, with QR codes on every page that link to videos further explaining them: ) The book aims to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful world of Startup, with many hidden silicon valley references for the trained eye.
Book Synopsis The Power of Babble by : Norman Solomon
Download or read book The Power of Babble written by Norman Solomon and published by Laurel. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the height of the 1992 presidential campaign, an essential dictionary for anyone seeking to understand the political doubletalk. Includes examples taken from actual speeches of politicians from Abe Lincoln to George Bush. Solomon co-authored Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media.
Download or read book The BS Dictionary written by Bob Wiltfong and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speak for Yourself Do you yearn for a book to disambiguate words and phrases commonly used in business settings, your workplace, and in life in general? Do you wish the kimono would open on idioms and clichés that stretch the bandwidth of understanding and make you wonder if your career is scalable? What are you really saying when you go against the grain and are aboveboard? What do you hear when your colleague wants face time or to move the needle? The BS Dictionary: Uncovering the Origins and True Meanings of Business Speak provides the real-world definitions to about 300 of the world's most commonly-used business terms and gives you the origin story (who coined the term? when did it start to be used figuratively in the business world?) for each one. Get the language clarity you need and have fun learning the full etymology of favorite phrases. Read humorous commentary about how phrases might be misused or misunderstood. If you are interested in language, business speak, writing, and trivia knowledge, this book is for you! Get The BS Dictionary and impress your friends with your newfound wealth of phrases and their history.
Book Synopsis Deconstructing Development Discourse by : Andrea Cornwall
Download or read book Deconstructing Development Discourse written by Andrea Cornwall and published by Practical Action Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --
Book Synopsis Business Buzzwords by : Charles B. Wendel
Download or read book Business Buzzwords written by Charles B. Wendel and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanbrain, zero defections, teamnet, empowerment, core competency, reverse engineering. Don't know what they mean? Managers who aren't fluent with '90s jargon may be risking embarrassment or even career self-sabotage. This easy-to-look-up guide provides entries for more than 100 terms, with commentary and examples to explain their meaning and help readers judge their value.
Download or read book Jargonwatch written by Gareth Branwyn and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jitterati -- 1. What the digital generation becomes after tanking up on too much coffee; 2. fear and anxiety associated with not speaking the latest jargon, acronyms, and buzz-words of the Digital Revolution. Every era in America has its own language, every new culture its own lingo. Jargon Watch documents the tortured and often hilarious new terminology that comes out of the high-pressure work environments of Silicon Valley, midtown Manhattan, Hollywood, and South Park, San Francisco. It is in these knowledge factories that 21st-century culture is being built. Every day, Gareth Branwyn culls through the terms sent in by dozens of contributors who work in these fast-paced worlds. Jargon Watch captures the language of the new American culture while mocking its newness. Ultimately, many of these words will enter mainstream English. Without Jargon Watch who in the year 2010 would remember how these terms came into existence?
Book Synopsis The Buzzword Bingo Book by : Lara Stein
Download or read book The Buzzword Bingo Book written by Lara Stein and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious guide to the underground game that's turning the workplace on its ear: bingo played not with numbers but with Corporate Speak -- those vague, euphemistic words spouted in offices and boardrooms everywhere. Played by everyone from graduating MIT seniors to Al Gore's commencement address to British Labour delegates listening to Tony Blair, this wickedly subversive game is quickly becoming a popular pasttime around the globe.
Download or read book The Man From Zara written by Kevin Duncan and published by Lid Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inditex – the group behind Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho and Bershka among others – is today a major force in the world of high-street fashion. It recently outranked Gap as the No.1 clothes retailer in the world. In virtually every city in the world, you will see one or more of Inditex’s shops – Zara being the most conspicuous. Yet little is known about this amazing success. This book o¬ers such an insight by telling the story of the genius behind the Inditex Group – Armancio Ortega. Besides being one of the world’s richest men, Ortega is the brains behind a modern-day revolution in textiles and fashion retail. Who really is Armancio Ortega? Where is he from? Where is he going? What led him to dream up this empire? Through unprecedented access to Ortega and his closest aides, the author provides a compelling and unique biography of the man responsible for one of this century’s most extraordinary business successes. Covadonga O’Shea, who has known Amancio Ortega since 1990, recounts in this rst book to be authorised by the man himself, the contents of long hours of conversation held between them, as well as with business colleagues closest to him.
Book Synopsis Management Fads and Buzzwords by : David Collins
Download or read book Management Fads and Buzzwords written by David Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 5,000 business and management titles are published every year, and increasingly, their preferred mode of presentation is centred on the creation and marketing of buzzwords and fads. This book argues that these management fads and buzzwords deflect critical inquiry and limit useful action because they present a 'ready made' view of the world, which rejects the benefits of theoretical analysis and reflection. Topics covered include: * the 'guru industry' * 'excellence' * business process re-engineering * empowerment * culture * knowledge work * globalization. 'Unpacking' the 'guru industry' and analyzing the fads and buzzwords, this book provides a 'critical-practical' analysis, designed to allow readers to locate, understand and critique management fashion.
Download or read book Jargon Watch written by Gareth Branwyn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every era in America has its own language, every new culture its own lingo. "JargonWatch" documents the tortured and often hilarious new terminology that comes out of the high-pressure work environments of Silicon Valley, midtown Manhattan, and Hollywood, and captures the language of the new American culture while mocking its newness.
Download or read book Spinglish written by Henry Beard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinglish—the devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctors—is all around us. And the fact is, until you’ve mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you, every minute of every day—without your even knowing it. However, once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude, you’ll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And here’s the beauty part: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, authors of the New York Times semi-bestseller The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guide—a fictionary, if you will—to help you do just that. If you want to succeed in business (or politics, sports, the arts, or life in general) without really lying, this is the book for you! (Your results may vary.) Spinglish includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand more: aesthetic procedure – face-lift dairy nutrients – cow manure enhanced interrogation techniques – torture “For your convenience.” – “For our convenience.” hands-on mentoring – sexual relations with a junior employee incomplete success – failure rightsizing – firing people zero-tasking – doing nothing With each and every entry sourced from some of the greatest real-life language benders in the world today, you’re virtually guaranteed to have the perfectly chosen tried-and-untrue term right at the tip of your forked tongue. Wish you could nimbly sidestep a question without batting an eye? Not sure how to apologize while also . . . not apologizing? Spinglish has you covered. Simply consult this convenient, shoot-from-the-lip glossary, and before you know it, you’ll be telling it like it isn’t, it wasn’t, and it couldn’t ever have been.
Book Synopsis The Civilization of Illiteracy by : Mihai Nadin
Download or read book The Civilization of Illiteracy written by Mihai Nadin and published by Dresden University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.
Book Synopsis The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds by : Maurizio Gotti
Download or read book The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds written by Maurizio Gotti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds) that appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scholars' attention has mostly concentrated on the earliest publications - particulary those appearing in the Elizabethan period -, while relatively little research has investigated subsequent canting dictionaries and glossaries. The aim of the present volume is to fill this gap. The main works on canting published in the 17th and 18th centuries are analysed in chapters 3 to 10. The first two chapters provide a necessary introduction to the investigation carried out in the subsequent sections, examining the great increase in the numbers of vagabonds and criminals in England in that period from a sociohistorical perspective and reviewing the 16th-century English literature about the underworld. The subsequent eight chapters give a detailed analysis of the main works on canting which appeared in the second part of the 17th century and during the whole of the 18th century. The specific features of each publication are identified, as well as the method adopted by its author in the compilation of his dictionary/glossary and the most likely sources of its entries, in order to determine the degree of novelty and relevance that his contribution has brought to this field. The final chapter deals with the evolution in the meaning of the term 'cant' itself in the period taken into consideration.
Book Synopsis Startup Buzzwords by : Matthew C Smith
Download or read book Startup Buzzwords written by Matthew C Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 68 startup buzzwords, from the everyday angel, to the not so common unicorns. All of which make up the jargon heavy world startup. These pages are a must read for any person who is exposed to startups, founders or technology in general.
Book Synopsis Mousewives & Muffintops by : S. J. Hartland
Download or read book Mousewives & Muffintops written by S. J. Hartland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining guide decodes the infuriating buzzwords and jargon that pepper life today. It exposes corporate doublespeak, political spin, journalistic euphemisms and all those trendy phrases that are intended to baffle and mystify. It also includes a good selection of witty one-liners, insults and put-downs so you will never be lost for words again.
Author :Eric S. Raymond Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781548201579 Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis The Hacker's Dictionary by : Eric S. Raymond
Download or read book The Hacker's Dictionary written by Eric S. Raymond and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary; what we describe here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate.
