Extreme Jargon-ism ..... Gobbledygook!!!

Today morning, I was surfing the net for some random articles. In one such, I came across this word "Gobbledygook". I was very fascinated by this word. This made me go further, in getting more information on this word.

Here is the gist of what I gathered:
When two doctors talk about some illness or some medicine, it might be greek and latin for an engineer. When two engineers talk in their technical language, it might be chinese and japanese for a lawyer. Thank God!! We can always escape from such unrelated domain-talks by saying, "There are lot of jargons in their speech". If we are interested in knowing what they mean, we can always refer some related sites or dictionary.

In an extended line, when a person or a set of people wants to convey some information to another person or a group, and when they use an incomprehensible language, it can be termed as 'Gobbledygook'. Unfortunately, there is no way to comprehend what they mean, even by using a dictionary. Oh!! How can it be understood, when the core intention is just to confuse! :)

Here are few examples of Gobbledygooks:
Gobbledygook:
in this day and age
Plain English:
today (or) now

Gobbledygook:
An office manager sent this memo to his boss:
"Verbal contact with Mr Blank regarding the attached notification of promotion has elicited the attached representation intimating that he prefers to decline the assignment."
Plain English:
Mr Blank didn't want the job

More interesting examples are available on net.

I feel jargons can be decoded easily than a gobbledygook. And, Jargons sometimes becomes necessary in a converastion whereas, gobbledygook are added deliberately to confuse the receiver. It is evident from the people who use this. Gobbledygooks are often used in public speeches ( especially by politicians) and in corporate terms and conditions.

I guess, we should cut short the usage of jargons and gobbledygooks in our speech or writing. After all, we speak/write to inform rather than impress!!!

Card covers decked up !!

I enjoy giving greeting cards to my friends on several occasions. It is a great time pass to select a suitable card for any friend. The only thing I hate to see is, the blank greeting card covers. So, I used to do some hand-work on it. Here are few cards and covers with some matching themes.

Greeting card making, adding to the colours of the card, making greeting card covers.... these are few things , which when done, makes me feel real satisfied. I have this thinking which keeps coming in my mind, that, if I have to move out of IT industry, here is where I need to enter. The Soft-skill industry!