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{{def|Yogababble|/ˈjəʊɡə ˈbab(ə)l/|n||[[File:Yogababble.jpg|thumb|450px|center|[[backpfeifengesicht]], yesterday.]]
[[File:Yogababble.jpg|thumb|[[backpfeifengesicht]], yesterday.]]
}}Spiritualistic [[virtue signalling]], but less odious it lacks the sheen of [[Passive aggressive|passive aggression]] [[yogababble]] is a genus of business communication confected out of buzzwords that once belonged to hippies. It fulfils the twin aims of (a) concealing the speaker’s want of intellect and (b) masking {{sex|his}}vacuity by interposing a ''string'' of ''á la mode'' expressions — you know what the [[JC]] thinks about [[fashionable idea]]s — the real wizardry of which is their facility for jumbling ideas which, taken alone, are transparent [[bullshit]], but, when pressed and kneaded together, form an amorphous kludge which might — just ''might'' — be profound.
}}Like [[virtue signalling]] but less odious because it lacks the sheen of [[Passive aggressive|passive aggression]], [[yogababble]] is a genus of business communication confected out of buzzwords. It fulfils the twin aims of (a) concealing the want of intellect in the yogababbler by (b) masking {{sex|his}} vacuity with a ''string'' of ''á la mode'' expressions — you know what the [[JC]] thinks about [[fashionable idea]]s — the real wizardry of which being the facility for jumbling ideas which, taken alone, are transparent [[bullshit]], but, when pressed and kneaded together form an amorphous kludge which might — just ''might'' — be profound.


Sample quote from the original yogababbler: “''Anybody that wants to be something greater than themselves, that understands that bringing meaning and intention into work and bringing those two things together, is a member of the “we generation”, and the money tends to follow.''”
Sample quote from the original yogababbler, Adam Neumann, once of WeWork: “''Anybody that wants to be something greater than themselves, that understands that bringing meaning and intention into work and bringing those two things together, is a member of the “we generation”, and the money tends to follow.''”
 
And the law suits and, one quietly hopes, jail time.


Excellent article about [[yogababble]] by Scott Galloway, who invented the term, including a [[Yogababble]] ''index'' — [https://www.profgalloway.com/yogababble here].
Excellent article about [[yogababble]] by Scott Galloway, who invented the term, including a [[Yogababble]] ''index'' — [https://www.profgalloway.com/yogababble here].