在职场中，层出不穷的“企业术语”让人又爱又恨。有些”黑话“源自军队、体育甚至金融界，旨在让内行人之间的沟通更加精准高效，有些则是用来包装棘手信息。一起揭秘那些办公室里的“隐形密码”吧！
It's Monday morning and you open your email to find your boss just "looping you in on a new thread".
Maybe a client wants to "pivot" their strategy for next quarter.
So we're gonna need you to go ahead and "drill down on the data" from the last campaign and maybe "share some key takeaways in tomorrow's standup".
No matter how much you roll your eyes reading that email, you can't help but reply that you'll do "a deep dive and circle back".
All that corporate lingo occupies a weird space and language where nobody likes it, but everybody does it.
So why can't we resist the pull of talking like sad, beige robots as soon as we step into an office building?
And where did all this synergy speak come from in the first place?
I'm Dr. Erica Brozovsky, and this is Otherwords.
To linguists, all that awkward office speak can be categorized as a jargon, or the technical vocabulary that is specific to members of a career field or activity.
Jargon is meant to make communication more precise and efficient for members of the in-group that uses it, even if it makes no sense to outsiders.
