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Scientists use jargon and complicated language to describe their work. Regular folks ‘get it’ more when descriptions are simpler – and think better of the researchers themselves.
Boasting about centering your transformative systems change paradigm means you’re doing it wrong. But fixes are available.
When language falls short of its ability to facilitate communication in the workplace, it can lead to misinterpretation and a sense of disconnection or exclusion.
Despite a lack of enforceable remedies, international experience suggests the proposed new ‘plain language’ law should improve official communications.
Dry, windy conditions have fueled destructive wildfires in Texas, Florida and other states in 2022. Understanding these terms can help people in fire-risk areas prepare.
The language around climate change can feel overwhelming. A psychology and public policy expert breaks it down in plain English.
Differentiating between bad jargon and good jargon.
We need to enter 2018 with a fresh set of expressions for the workplace.
Most healthcare information is written at a level more advanced than the reader’s ability.
Going forward, perhaps we ought to cut office patois some slack – it greases the wheels of business, after all.
Learn a new language, or stay out of the loop.
Frequent users of jargon think they’re being impressive when they’re really just baffling their listeners.
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University of Groningen
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Senior Research Manager, University of Oxford
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Adjunct Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources, Singapore Management University
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Law Lecturer, University of Waikato
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Director of Strategic Communications, Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Associate Professor, Management, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Director of Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative, Schaeffer Institute of Public Policy & Government Service, USC Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Director, Center for Public Interest Communications, University of Florida
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Director of the Southern Fire Exchange, University of Florida
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Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Waikato
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Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Communication, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences