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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by tannhaeuser on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @07:50PM (#16019433)
The worst I've seen so far are posters with mindless and vulgar motivation propaganda such as "Bullshit-free Zone" and "Get Shit Done" [1]. These seem to be popular with a customer of mine who went all-in on SCRUM last year (believe me, you haven't seen anything yet if you haven't worked in a German team throwing around everyday or pseudo English terms in an attempt to appear cool).

[1]: https://www.startupvitamins.com/

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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by posterboy on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:40PM (#16019665)
if I may chime in on the last bit, because I sensesed a sense hostility

> pseudo english terms

isn't that just the english language? A mix of norse, french, latin, alotta patoise and irish and ... just sudo english

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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by berbec on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:51PM (#16019712)
> sudo english

This inspired me: I'm am now renaming /bin/sudo to /bin/pseudo

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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by tannhaeuser on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:01PM (#16019746)
It probably is, but there are pseudo-English idioms in use that just hurt. For example, "public viewing" is used in German for featuring sports events on large screens in the public, "handy" is used for mobiles, etc. See https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/40586/why-do-germ... for a discussion about this phenomenon.
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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by posterboy on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:04PM (#16024492)
He, I think we just find it super cold like but not quite (ie cool) to copy from our thought leaders.
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