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[[PowerPoint]] can create pervasive collective delusions: in the hands of a gifted [[middle manager]], [[PowerPoint]] can turn base metal into fool’s gold. | [[PowerPoint]] can create pervasive collective delusions: in the hands of a gifted [[middle manager]], [[PowerPoint]] can turn base metal into fool’s gold. | ||
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 {{tag|Latin}} five thousand years ago. | |||
Adeptness at [[PowerPoint]], the willingness to tinker around to get snappy [[slide]] transitions and the like, is a core skill of an aspiring [[middle manager]] (and a quick way to pick up the fundamental syntax of this new idiom). | Adeptness at [[PowerPoint]], the willingness to tinker around to get snappy [[slide]] transitions and the like, is a core skill of an aspiring [[middle manager]] (and a quick way to pick up the fundamental syntax of this new idiom). | ||
But you knew that already. More interesting is PowerPoint’s central role in the development of the modern business dialect, [[management speak]]. | |||
[[File:Omar.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Talk to my [[slide]], Yo]] | |||
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