January 6, 2010
Guru recently stumbled upon the 'Write your own academic sentence' site which generates random sentences from a list of phrases common in many academic fields.
The jargon generator allows you to choose a selection of random words and then creates an impressive sounding but meaningless sentence from them. For example, Guru has created the following:
This got Guru thinking about how useful this jargon generator would be to us in HR. Big presentation coming up? Need to write that new policy document? Then use Guru's patented HR JargonGenerator (TM).
It could really be a Godsend if you're struggling for that sentence that makes you sounds like you know what you're talking about. For example, type in the phrases: engagement; going forward; leverage; low-hanging fruit; and transformation.
Press enter and voila! You now have the sentence:
The jargon generator allows you to choose a selection of random words and then creates an impressive sounding but meaningless sentence from them. For example, Guru has created the following:
"The illusion of pop culture is virtually coextensive with the engendering of the nation-state."The tool is the brainchild of Tracy Weiner (no sniggering), associate director of the University of Chicago's writing programme, which aims to help students write stuff betterer. She says there is a temptation among students who read academic material to imitate its style.
"The culture of civil society is homologous with the discourse of the public sphere."
"The poetics of the natural functions as the conceptual frame for the engendering of exchange value."
This got Guru thinking about how useful this jargon generator would be to us in HR. Big presentation coming up? Need to write that new policy document? Then use Guru's patented HR JargonGenerator (TM).
It could really be a Godsend if you're struggling for that sentence that makes you sounds like you know what you're talking about. For example, type in the phrases: engagement; going forward; leverage; low-hanging fruit; and transformation.
Press enter and voila! You now have the sentence:
"Going forward as the economy moves towards recovery it is important the organisation leverages levels of engagement while picking off low-hanging fruit to fully implement our transformation."Wow, this thing could really work...
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