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Le arn a Lit tle Jobble dygook
Big winners speak Jobbledygook as a second language.
What is Jobbledygook? It’s the language of other
professions.
Why speak it? It makes you sound like an insider.
How do you learn it? You’ll find no Jobbledygook
cassettes in the language section of your bookstore, but
the lingo is easy to pick up. Simply ask a friend who
speaks the lingo of the crowd you’ll be with to teach
you a few opening questions. The words are few and
the rewards are manifold.
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My friend John, a physician, recently married a charming Japa-
nese woman, Yamika. John told me the first time they were invited
to a party to meet many of John’s colleagues, Yamika was panic-
stricken. She wanted to make a good impression, yet she was tense
about talking to American doctors. John was the only one she’d
ever met, and during their romance they didn’t spend a whole lot
of time discussing medicine.
John told her, “Don’t worry about it, Yami. They all ask each
other the same old questions. When you meet them, just ask,
‘What’s your specialty’ and ‘Are you affiliated with a hospital?’
“Then, to get into deeper conversation,” he continued, “throw
out questions like ‘How’s your relationship with your hospital?’ or
‘How’s the current medical environment affecting you?’ These are
hot issues with doctors because everything’s changing in health
care.”
John said Yamika delivered the lines verbatim. She circulated
the party asking the various doctors’ specialties and inquiring
about their affiliations and relationships with their hospitals. As a
result, she was the hit of the party. Many of John’s colleagues later
congratulated him on having found such a charming and insight-
ful woman.
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