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- The Elements of Style
- Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide
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- Legalwriting.net
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Bah, Humbug! Business Jargon Needn't Be a Done Deal

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 07:03AM

Editor’s Note - I’m trying something different with this article: It’s a downloadable Adobe Acrobat file. It’s licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, which means you are free to distribute copies of the work. (Click here for more information.)

The Bad News: Business writing is mostly painfully bad. The Good News: We can do something about it. Right-click here and choose Save As to download Business_Jargon.pdf.

Roy Jacobsen |

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