Avoiding ‘words to avoid’ | Inside GOV.UK
I love the thinking behind this plugin that highlights the weasel words that politicians are so found of.
Unsuck It
An excellent resource for deciphering corporate business-speak gibberish (I'm going to need this when I'm eavesdropping on Andy Budd making phone calls).
Related links
List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say.
Glad to see "webinar" on this list. Shame about "lifestream."
Getting help from your worst enemy
Onboarding. Reaching out. In terms of. Synergy. Bandwidth. Headcount. Forward planning. Multichannel. Going forward. We are constantly bombarded and polluted with nonsense speak. These words and phrases snag and attach themselves to our vocabulary like sticky weeds.
Words become walls.
I love this post from Ben on the value of plain language!
We’re not dumbing things down by using simple terms. We’re being smarter.
Read on for the story of the one exception that Ben makes—it’s a good one.
Douchespeak
Ridiculing the empty language of the corporate world one putrid word at a time.