Is your resume clear?

While researching Message Not Received, I found no shortage of truly awful misuses of the English language in professional settings. No book of a reasonable length, though, can begin to capture even a tiny percentage of the worst semantic atrocities. What's more, as I argue in the book, the use of jargon is exacerbating and becoming more pervasive.

The Horror

I recently saw this doozy on LinkedIn:

Created interlock between horizontal marketing groups to help synergize and streamline marketing operations, tracking revenues and sales trends and reported on recommendations and conclusions to foster operational improvement opportunities and drive change.

The horror ...