When any person becomes a student of his discipline, he must first learn at least the rudiments of the language of the subject.
(With apologies to the feminising trends in the English language, hereinafter each “his” implies “his/her” and each “he” implies “s/he” purely for the sake of convenience. The author has no salacious motives & whatever they are, we do not subscribe by them- Editors)
You know how aspirant doctors are first taught to write in the unintelligible hieroglyphs of the super-intelligent? Exactly the case in point! Students studying evolution of languages, I am told, spend months learning how to click their tongues in Africa, make weird (elsewhere considered rude) hand gestures in Italy and to argue non-stop in India before they can claim their degree.
However, no other student masters the language of his vocation faster than an MBA student. The lingua franca of this sub-specie is called jargon. This language is rich and varied in its dialects- the dialect varying with nationality and college. However, the basic grammar and rules thereof remain same across all spoken dialects. The language is also united across various colleges by definitive works of such authors as Chase, Jacob & Aquilano (Operations clan) and Damodaran (Finance clan). But the foremost scholars who write in jargon are Ulrich (HR clan) and Kotler (Marketing clan).
The primary objective of each dialect is also essentially the same- to make the subject arduous enough for comprehension so that a professional or individual of any sub-specie other than the MBA my not glean even an iota information.
Numerous authors have written extensively about jargon. However, this post focuses on one of the most popular dialect: the SIBM-jargon. The primary speakers of this language are the SIBM MBA students- my esteemed collegues.
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