Plenty of jargon to make you feel important

Just a quick thought; why do so many people use so much jargon ?

I’m personally not a great fan of jargon. It has it’s place of course, as a short-hand to move on conversations that would otherwise be unnecessarily tedious. But even so, I believe jargon is too readily over-used – and not always for the most honest of reasons.

How often have you felt as though you were listening to someone who was trying to ‘baffle you with bull‘  or ‘blind you with science‘ ?

Doesn’t it make you suspicious ?

I encountered a guy today who, whilst trying to pitch himself for an opportunity mentioned that he had an IQ of 140 and an MBA from a fancy business school but admitted that he “had been working on his fruition abilities“.

What ?

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Are you a jargon user ?

What do you think ?    Leave a comment. I’d be really interested to hear your views.