{"id":586,"date":"2010-01-19T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2010-01-20T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:44:29","slug":"can-you-speak-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/can-you-speak-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you speak business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Buzzwords.jpg\" alt=\"Buzzwords\" title=\"Buzzwords\" width=\"104\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-587\" \/>Following up on yesterday\u2019s post about industry-specific terminology, I thought I\u2019d share with you this fun application.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworkplacenow.com\/bigwords\/\">Business Speak Generator<\/a> uses standard sentence structures and combines them with the latest lingo to create sentences that sound genuine. Perfect for when you\u2019re stuck and can\u2019t think of anything to add to that almost-complete report, the Business Speak Generator will come up with something that makes you sound smart, without the need to put a lot of thought into it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an era of discontinuous change, a need to overcome the limitations operationalizes excessive use of previously established frameworks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure that \u2018operationalizes\u2019 is really a word, but it sounds great&#8230; and scarily like reading a corporate report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on yesterday\u2019s post about industry-specific terminology, I thought I\u2019d share with you this fun application. The Business Speak Generator uses standard sentence structures and combines them with the latest lingo to create sentences that sound genuine. Perfect for when you\u2019re stuck and can\u2019t think of anything to add to that almost-complete report, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,109,16,44],"tags":[549,548,551,512,550,51,546],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-invented-languages","category-technology","category-words","tag-business-language","tag-business-speak","tag-business-speak-generator","tag-buzzwords","tag-corporate-language","tag-language","tag-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}