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I now understand that "Snowflake" means something that is not frozen.
I then get a message that includes these ebay quotes...
"expanding Payments into more geographies to improve conversion"
"we expect to have transisioned a majority of marketplace customers to the new payments experience"
ebay are also .."Intermediating". ( that sounds very Rude? )
I have to keep up with all these changes to spoken & written English as i now need to conform to .."Societal Norms"

I get the feeling you don't work for a medium/large company ? It's been going on for years - more commonly known as 'Corporate Bolloxspeak'.
I have to dig out my phrase book each time I get summoned to head office.

most of us have bigger cats to fry!

joking apart, i think a lot of it is down to google translate

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'long beard boss'

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We used to sit in company presentations ticking of the management w@nk words against a tally chart.

"Moving forward" usually got a good score.

The current "fad" for starting every response with "so" really gets up my nose.

Pet peeves?
How about when people are speaking and raise the pitch towards the end of their sentence to change it into a question? The printed equivalent is terminating with a question mark what is clearly worded as a statement.

My father was the family linguist and a simple thing that used to chap his ass was the word "crispy". He used to boil over when he heard the word in commercials. "It's nothing but a made up advertising word!" he would say. If he saw the state of the English language (U.K. or U.S.) today he would churn in his urn.

I let some language things get to me and rant for a while. However, I also accept that language is a dynamic thing and it will change over time... adding new words, changing definitions, and older expressions/words dropping from use.

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Bullsh*t Bingo:-
A fun game to play in boring meetings......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword_bingo

Example:
"The strategic aim is to standardise the infrastructures to drive down operating costs through supply based consolidation and leveraging group spend as well as exploiting best-in-class technologies and practices to provide robust, scalable and agile services with excellent customer experience."
http://www.bollocksphere.co.uk/Content/Business.shtml

its only 600 years old....

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'long beard boss'

I believe it has been said that this all started when afternoon Australian tv soap operas became popular with youngsters growing up in the UK.....