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Great post. I really hate how the MBA douches have ruined "synergy" because there really is no good synonym when the word is appropriate.


There is probably something good in German, but it will be 18 letters long.


Evolutionary pressures on spoken language drive common concepts to claim shorter symbols, so it seems fine to pay 18 letters (plus an escape to an alternate language) for this more-rarified meaning of synergy, leaving "synergy" and "disrupt" as depleted membership tokens of the crunchosphere.




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