Learning English For Work

Should we use jargon?


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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

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