Thanks for this. A million mod-points to you. I'm one of Slashdot's Most Maligned: an MBA corporate manager for an offshore outsourcer. A significant proportion of technical discussions here include material that is over my head, but I have just enough residual geekiness from my high school days to enjoy visiting every day.

Whenever people on Slashdot complain about "corporate-speak", I see ridiculous examples that have just got to be made up because they don't make any sense to me, the target audience of such language. But if you transcribed real examples of "management speak", odds are many or most would have precise meanings understood by the people to whom the communication was intended. There are plenty of examples of misuse, of course, but any competent "management type" looks down on such misuse and isn't fooled by it.

I'm as amused as anyone by the Bullsh*t Bingo cards, but I can tell you that phrases like "Total Cost of Ownership" and "Turnkey Solution" have specific meanings that, absent those phrases, would take many more words to describe.