[ihsw2]

That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever you want."

[privacypoller]

and then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.

[danmg]

When it's a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning, yes you can.

[JumpCrisscross]

> a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning

All words and phrases are made up. None of them have an “inherent concrete meaning”. Commonly-accepted deifnitions today may have been entirely foreign a few decades ago.

[kazinator]

Words and phrases can have a de facto inherent meaning when they are in a language shared by the speaker and listener (including a shared knowledge domain).

When in spite of this shared language/domain situation, a phrase is gobbledygook, it is fair to say it has "no inherent concrete meaning".

[danmg]

Exactly. It's not like the author is saying, "The cat is on the red table."

[danmg]

Yes, so the author is free to talk about 'toxic culture' as inflexible management and that makes sense to me.

[mercer]

So if you think all these things, why do you feel a need to convince us we're wrong? I mean, does your blarf just not embiggen the point yule's trying to make? I mean, depending on what you might think I instoll with a breem like 'your blarf'.

I do agree that it all glarps like slofting ar a six year old.

[danmg]

ok.