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248 months ago

Claude Le Frapper (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Business / Marketing / Financial
Level of diffculty:	Difficult / demanding
Word or term in question:	Langue de bois
Context:	Speaking of the lack of the co
Keywords:	Language utilisé: Langue de bo

 

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wooden language

My comment:

"No, the problem is that the "wooden language" (that's how we call it) is ethically unacceptable, it is a jargon made of slogans and clichés that keeps experience away, it never establishes any contact with sorrow or pain, love and delight, feelings, emotions. It only accomplishes boredom. "

My references:

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/giap/Giapdigest24.html

The asker's comment:

I had never heard that, but I now see that it is used quite a bit

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