{"id":607,"date":"2014-01-26T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=607"},"modified":"2014-01-26T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:58:45","slug":"the-language-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"The language of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>DESCENDING from the corporate equivalent of the lofty Swiss Magic Mountain dreamt up by Thomas Mann in his great 20th-century novel of the same name, your reporter has been decompressing from days of Davos-speak among the tycoons, oligarchs and well-heeled hangers-on.<\/span><br \/><span>A mixture of corporate jargon, future-fixation and deployment of airy concepts intended to convey prescient wisdom is a linguistic hallmark of the World Economic Forum.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span>In ambition and ambiguity, Davos-speak easily outdoes the quotidian office jargon, mocked by the television satire \u201cThe Office\u201d in both its British and American incarnations.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span>The Forum\u2019s denizens do not merely talk of \u201cgoing forward,\u201d \u201cdrilling down,\u201d and \u201ccircling back\u201d\u2014the verbal chaff of mid-raking sorts. No, this elite club produces fresh sesquipedalian bamboozlement. The following concoctions are just a modest sample gathered throughout the event:<\/span><br \/><span>\u201cWe can\u2019t play in every vertical\u201d (though we will of course ensure that those welcome \u201chorizontal synergies\u201d do not impact adversely on \u201ccore brand\u201d).<\/span><br \/><span>\u201cThe future will be contribution-defined, not benefit-specific.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span>And a farewell thought from Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo boss, \u201cPassion is a gender-neutralising force.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span>At least the&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/KYx6fT\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from Prospero http:\/\/ift.tt\/KYx6fT<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1c4nCfM\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DESCENDING from the corporate equivalent of the lofty Swiss Magic Mountain dreamt up by Thomas Mann in his great 20th-century novel of the same name, your reporter has been decompressing from days of Davos-speak among the tycoons, oligarchs and well-heeled hangers-on.A mixture of corporate jargon, future-fixation and deployment of airy concepts intended to convey prescient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[84],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}