{"id":36,"date":"2008-06-18T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T22:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:31:49","slug":"say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Say it ain\u2019t so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC posted <a title=\"Officespeak\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/7457287.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this collection<\/a> of office speak terms. Jargon we may know and dislike, but somehow has crept or has wedged itself into our conversations. <strong>Idea showers-<\/strong> I was hoping more for shampoo and frizz free conditioner.   <strong>Going forward<\/strong>, well shucks are we supposed to stand still, dance in circles or plummet off of precipes?<\/p>\n<p>It makes you wonder though, what is this thing called communication? To quote Emily Post, &#8220;Ideal conversation is an exchange of thought and not necessarily an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.&#8221;  I rather happen to like her quote from the 1922 edition, &#8220;The cleverest woman is she who, in talking to a man makes <em>him<\/em> seem clever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She has a point communication establishes relationships and our own private hierarchies. Business speak at times gives the aura of importance to a person or project which may or may not be merited. There is a time and a place of course for our big square voices to command attention. Personally I prefer plain dealing and remembering that we are all just people who tie our shoes and have plenty to think about after that 3 o&#8217;clock meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC posted this collection of office speak terms. Jargon we may know and dislike, but somehow has crept or has wedged itself into our conversations. Idea showers- I was hoping more for shampoo and frizz free conditioner. Going forward, well shucks are we supposed to stand still, dance in circles or plummet off of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}