Okay, some people do find legal jargon impenetrable. But if you really want to be lost while listening to people who purport to speak English, hang around business types for a while. In giant companies all across the nation, managers are busily scrunching, truncating, blurring, and “re-purposing” language.
It’s easy to picture the scene: You’re in a conference room full of people in “business casual.” The lawyers smile-hard to tell if it’s amusement or befuddlement-as their clients earnestly deploy another biz buzzword.
