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[[PowerPoint]] is an application for fools and dilettantes. Serious people have no truck with it. | |||
PowerPoint is the market-standard software package for dressing up fatuous ideas with profundity. On it, one generates “[[deck]]s” | No novel in history, no play, no acerbic letter — no creative thought of any substance at all — has ever first put its squealing voice in the cupped ear of the world only but for the ministrations of Microsoft [[PowerPoint]]. | ||
PowerPoint is the market-standard software package for dressing up fatuous ideas with profundity. On it, one generates “[[deck]]s” — animated presentations one inflicts on powerless underlings in order to promise much and deliver little. | |||
In the hands of an individual gifted in the magic of [[middle management]], [[PowerPoint]] can turn base metal into fool’s gold. | |||
But you knew that already. More interesting is PowerPoint’s central role in the development of the modern business dialect, [[management speak]]. PowerPoint’s linguistic foundation comprises not just the traditional Roman alphabet but a supplemental lexicon of wingdings, pull-outs, bullets and animated transitions through which one can communicate in ways previously alien to the Indo-European tradition. This makes [[management speak]] a sort of base sixteen to ordinary English’s decimal; an illegitimate off-spring of our historical linguistic traditions and perhaps the first genuinely new dialect to emerge since the Latin five thousand years ago. | But you knew that already. More interesting is PowerPoint’s central role in the development of the modern business dialect, [[management speak]]. PowerPoint’s linguistic foundation comprises not just the traditional Roman alphabet but a supplemental lexicon of wingdings, pull-outs, bullets and animated transitions through which one can communicate in ways previously alien to the Indo-European tradition. This makes [[management speak]] a sort of base sixteen to ordinary English’s decimal; an illegitimate off-spring of our historical linguistic traditions and perhaps the first genuinely new dialect to emerge since the Latin five thousand years ago. | ||
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