Lots of people find jargon annoying. Is it useful in the workplace? Pippa and Phil talk about when to use jargon and when to avoid it, with help from journalist Anna Maloney, Anne Curzan from the University of Michigan and John Fiset from St Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Listen to Business Daily on jargon here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5znh Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/business-jargon/241216 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
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Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work and our special series All About Jargon.
I'm Phil.
And I'm Pippa.
In this series, we've been talking about some of the strange words and phrases we use at work.
Business jargon.
As we've mentioned in the series, lots of people find jargon annoying or difficult to understand.
So today we're going to look more at why we use jargon and whether it's helpful in our working lives.
Find a transcript for this episode to read along on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
Now, earlier this year, we made a program All About Jargon with our colleagues at Business Daily, a BBC World Service business series.
Their reporter, Ed Butler, spoke to Anna Maloney, a journalist at the London financial newspaper City Am.
And Anna's been writing a new column highlighting a different piece of corporate jargon each week.
So, Anna, let's just pick up the paper.
Yeah.
So what have we got here?
Today?
We're highlighting stakeholder, which I think is a particularly insidious one.
Anna's jargon of the week is stakeholder.
Now, this means anyone who's involved in a company and has an interest in it being successful.
So employees are stakeholders, but also the people who own the company are stakeholders, the customers, the clients, all of those kinds of people.