The Wireless

Jargon busters

08:34 am on 24 December 2013

It's that time of year when Morning Report takes a look at 'transforming and repurposing' of the language.

In a somewhat disquieting sign of the times, there was a lot of talk about the repurposing and transitioning of employees, or what used to be known as 'sacking workers.'

The watchwoman of all of us at RNZ's words and style, the one who pulls us up on our every mistake, Gael Woods, opened the kimono on paradigm shifts, deliverables and the key metrics of the latest learnings...or more precisely, jargon.