{"id":4108,"date":"2014-12-09T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:12:41","slug":"on-gobbledegook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/on-gobbledegook\/","title":{"rendered":"On gobbledegook"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It&#8217;s called gobbledygook. There&#8217;s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets &#8220;finalized.&#8221; Things don&#8217;t happen at the same time but &#8220;coincident with this action.&#8221; Believe it or not, people will talk about taking a &#8220;commitment position&#8221; and then because of the &#8220;volatility of schedule changes&#8221; they will &#8220;decommit&#8221; so that our &#8220;posture vis-\u00e0-vis some data base that needs a sizing will be able to enhance competitive positions.&#8221; That&#8217;s gobbledygook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thomas Watson Jr, IBM, February 19, 1970)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It&#8217;s called gobbledygook. There&#8217;s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets &#8220;finalized.&#8221; Things don&#8217;t happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-14g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}