[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Numbers 14 (Bottom line), 20 (Benchmark) and 32 (Action plan ) aren't really jargon. They are normal terms that describe definite items and have been in use for a very, very long time.

Now, in today's business/corporate environment that is populated largely by mis-educated illiterates, their usage is not at all proper.

[Mr. Douglas]

Now, in today’s business/corporate environment that is populated largely by mis-educated illiterates, their usage is not at all proper.

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I agree. There are legitimate phrases on that list, and there are those that have lost their meaning to a lot of the ‘mis-educated” that continues to load up the cubicles around here. I suppose it’s how some of the old guys looked at me when I came in in the early 80’s.

But it does seem worse now. It’s as though the schools want everyone to see all definitions as “squishy”, ever since Bill Clinton said, “It depends on the definition of the word, ‘is’.”