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The philosopher Étienne Bonnot de Condillac observed in 1782 that “every science requires a special language because every science has its own ideas.” Nowhere is that more apparent than the modern workplace. Jargon is everywhere.
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Rather than improve understanding however, corporate double-speak can obfuscate and confuse. Worse, it can make you feel unempowered. Jargon is supposed to be shorthand for people “in the know” (like people of a certain profession or social group), but jargon can also act as a Shibboleth; when you don’t understand what’s being said, it can make you feel like an outsider, or like you’re uninformed.
And let’s face it, jargon is just plain annoying.
Meet the cheat sheet
Since Asana wants to promote clarity around communication at work, we’ve collected the most common phrases heard around our office. The result is this handy reference for teams:
We’re all guilty of using buzzwords and putting this document together taught us how much they can sneak their way into our vocabularies. Hopefully this cheat sheet can help your team communicate more clearly, going forward. 😉
Feel free to share—or print this out and post it at your home, office, RV, or anywhere else jargon is spoken.
Have you heard any jargon that bothers you, or that you don’t understand? Please tell us in the comments!
Text Font Generator
This text font generator allows you to convert normal text into different text fonts that you can copy and paste into Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit and most other places on the internet. The different text fonts are all a part of the Unicode standard which means that they're not like normal fonts. If they were normal fonts you wouldn't be able to copy and paste them anywhere.
If you're wondering why on Earth it's possible to copy these fonts and paste them in your social media posts, then here's the quick explanation: Unicode is a standards body for the whole international computing industry which works on creating a list of all possible textual characters that should be available on all devices (phones, tablets, computers, ...). Most large companies in the computing industry (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Canonical, ...) comply with the Unicode standard or at least some portion of it.
Unicode specifies over 100,000 different characters across hundreds of languages and symbol sets. So rather than each computer company inventing their own set of symbols, they can just use Unicode's set. This essentially means that Unicode symbols work almost everywhere.
But here's where we get back to text fonts: Amongst the thousands of symbols in Unicode is the normal alphabetic symbols (the ones you're reading right now), but also a number of other alphabets which are different in some way. There are also thousands of characters which look like letters from the Latin alphabet, but are really symbols from other symbols sets and languages. Either way, we can pick out all sorts of symbols from the Unicode standard and use them to construct all sorts of novel textual font styles which we can copy and paste.
Here are some text fonts you can generate with this site:
- 𝖆 𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖆𝖑 𝖋𝖔𝖓𝖙 which comes in two different styles.
- α ⓦⒾ𝕖ｒｄ 爪ᶤЖ 𝕠ℱ ＳЎ𝐦вσⓁŞ which is generated from hundreds of different Unicode sets.
- 𝒶 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝒻♡𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓈❁𝓂𝑒 𝑒𝓂🌸𝒿𝒾𝓈 🎀 - this one replaces all o's with a random heart or flower emoji
- 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓷𝓽 that comes in two different styles (bold and normal)
- 𝕕𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥
- ʇuoɟ ʇxǝʇ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq puɐ uʍop ǝpısdn uɐ
- 🅰 🅱🅻🅾🅲🅺🆈 🆃🅴🆇🆃 🅵🅾🅽🆃
And many, many more.
If you come across other text fonts that I should include in this generator, please let me know! I'll add it to this generator and my other ones which are copies of this (like fancy text generator). The reason there are a few copies is because my analytics showed people where searching for a 'fancy text' type generator with different keywords and Google wasn't showing the correct results.
Copy and Paste
A quick note on copying and pasting Unicode text: Some website actually prevent special unicode characters from showing by 'sanitising' your post (deleteing all wierd characters) before saving your post to the server. This isn't common, but it's worth knowing. If that happens, it's not a problem with this translator, it just means the website doesn't allow special characters. Another thing you might come across when you copy and paste text fonts from this generator is that characters may show up as squares when you paste them. This means that the font which is being used by the website where you pasted the font doesn't support special unicode characters. Again, this is unavoidable :( Unicode is becoming more and more common though, so things are getting better.
And one final note: If you copy and paste the fonts in a messenger program or an SMS/text message, then the recipient may not actually see the characters like you see them. They may see blocks or perhaps nothing at all. Though this is rare, it does happen becomes some devices don't support as much of the Unicode symbol set as yours does.
Thanks for using my text fonts generator! I also made an emoji translator, a wingdings translator, and a glitch text generator which you might like to check out!
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