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Switter’s World's avatar

I thought corporate communications were always written by machines. Deadly stuff. To survive, a colleague and I always played B.S. Bingo during all the dreary, interminable meetings. This was after I got tired of calculating the salary costs of worthless meetings. In B.S.Bingo, we filled the little squares on our Bingo cards with buzzwords: synergy, segue, sustainability, synchronicity, etc. The first one of us to cross off every word was supposed to jump up and yell “Bullsh*t.” That was the plan, anyway, but when one has a mortgage, kids needing an orthodontist, and a dodgy minivan, one restrains oneself. Our wins were always quiet little wins.

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Alastair Gordon's avatar

No, it seems human ingenuity is still better then machines at writing carefully crafted crappola. Perhaps robot intelligence just can't get the point of adding an extra hubritistic sentence? Yes, I know BS bingo well ... ah, happy memories!

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