Molly Young
Garbage Language
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
New York, 2020
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Literary critic Molly Young discusses the sometimes hilarious, sometimes pathetic ways in which corporate communication degrades language.
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Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
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About the Author
Literary critic Molly Young writes about books and language for New York magazine.
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