How to take the BS out of business speak | Bob Wiltfong | TEDxVienna

[@nHans]

The point you made-that 'insiders' use their own secret dialect to exclude outsiders and feel special about themselves-struck home. As a student, I studied in many different schools and colleges. Now, as a software consultant, I've been employed by various companies, and I work with several clients. And everywhere, the insiders have their own specialized vocabulary, insider stories and jokes, handshakes, customs, and rituals. It's not documented; not easy to follow; and certainly not intended to be understood by newcomers and outsiders. I'm not saying they're doing it deliberately to drive a wedge, but it always has that effect. (I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't know the origins of _"struck home"_ or _"drive a wedge"._ Could be sports, war, transportation, gardening-I couldn't say. So I apologize to others if my intended meaning is lost in translation.)

[@lewiswilliams1893]

I think those phrases don't really have origin stories. Striking home or hitting home might be a war metaphor. But I thought the wedge phrase came from the literal use of driving wooden or stone wedges into other objects.

[@nantiampalamoti7104]

SUPER..Thank you Mr Bob Wiltfong !

[@nHans]

Oh man, _now_ you're telling me to avoid phrases that are region-, religion-, culture-, and language-specific? I'm not a native English speaker, and learnt English formally in school. Funnily enough, the teachers gave us more marks for using vivid, poetic language rather than dry, staid prose. And that included liberal use of 'approved' phrases and proverbs-those listed in the eponymous appendix of our English textbook. (BTW, the textbook didn't tell us the origin of the phrase; just the meaning and examples of usage.) We weren't allowed to use literal translations from our native languages-pretty much for the same reason that you mentioned. But back then, it seemed quite ... one-sided. Do you remember the poor teacher in _Mind Your Language,_ trying to teach English phrases to foreign students? _Thick as thieves, deaf as a post,_ ...? I could very well have been one of his foreign students! Long story short-I assumed that all English speakers-native as well as ESL/EFL-would be familiar with those phrases. And just now, you told me 'tain't so. Bummer. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the gender-neutral singular _they / them._

[@lewiswilliams1893]

I think his point is to use these colloquialisms carefully, when you know the audience will understand, rather than never use them at all. I liken it to using different languages generally; you can use them to include or exclude. Don't be discouraged. I am a native English speaker and also struggle with how to adopt they/them, Latinx, etc.

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