We’re updating our ‘gobbledygook’ file and appeal for your help.
What is gobbledygook? From the Compact Oxford English Dictionary:
/gobb’ldigook/ (also gobbledegook)
• noun informal pompous or unintelligible jargon.
— ORIGIN probably imitating a turkey’s gobble.
Received any gobbledygook lately from banks, telecoms providers, schools or even our dear HKSAR government?
Customer communications, brochures, forms – all [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Calling for your gobbledygook!
May 27th, 2009
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Welcome!
May 22nd, 2009
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Welcome to the Better Business Writing blog.
We’ve created this blog as a platform to discuss business communication issues, particularly in Asia.
We’ll be posting examples of gobbledygook or jargon, suggesting better ways of writing and listing useful resources and information.
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Maid in China
May 22nd, 2009
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A UK supermarket, Morrisons, has been forced to withdraw a toy designed to help toddlers learn to read because some of the words were misspelled. The alphabet building blocks included a picture of an umbrella captioned ‘Umberlla’ and a boat beside the word ‘Yatch’. And instead of the usual X-ray or xylophone, the letter x [...]
