American Corporate English

Tora^2 · Beerkadet

American Corporate English

s2chard · KONOHA VILLAGE - Jounin

I think it will depend on the nature of your work and your working environment. In my case, we have to deal with Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino clients. Among them, Chinese has a not-so-strong English background. That is why, we have to use words in its simplest form. I think Japanese has a very strong English background unfortunately has a problem dealing with speech. Filipinos are well-rounded, most versatile. Also, we are engineers so we have to use terms "comprehensible" to everybody...

However, for me, it would really be nice to know American Corporate English words or terms every now and then. biggrin

Mr_Yoso · Senior

papogi points lang un, but i think it is really not that necessary...

KenMikaze · Enigbaboykage-ANBU

Would you cater to such incomprehensible jibberish? I mean Americans on-the-norm prefer to hear their langue simply straight.

Tora^2 · Beerkadet

If you are talking to customers who have an issue to address or pitch a product/service to, KISS. But if you are talking to clients who are providing your call center accounts then bring on the corpo babble!!!

bugoytheman · Pseudo Ponderer

it depends on who you are talking. Still, it's good to have a know-how of those "American corporate English"...you have nothing to lose, and something to gain...

still, if you know how to communicate in a corporate manner AND in "an everyday manner", that would be the best of both worlds ('ika nga).

but KenMikaze is right, i have met White guys who prefers talking in simple English.

pilandok · Cyber Pilandok

i like filipino style english, d ung english carabao ah, pero mas prefered ko ang sariling atin XD hehe, Kung tutuusin dapat sila ang matutong magtagalog d tau ( customers )

bluebearfrancis · Senior

Just avoid transliteration... adjust your style and choice of words to the level of understanding of the person you are talking to.. when i was an agent i use simple conversational english.. what matters most is your tone and how you deliver your responses...

bugoytheman · Pseudo Ponderer

for me, as long as you're understood by your client or your listener, that would be fine. Conversational English, 'ika nga.

pilandok: i remember an Amazing Race episode that goes this way:

Contestant (English speaking): Excuse me, do you speak English?

Native: Do you speak swahili?

Hehehehehehe

pilandok · Cyber Pilandok

@bugoy XD hehehe, o dba? mas ok kung tau nagtatanong ng "Excuse me Do you speak tagalog"
o kya "Excuse me Do you speak Kapampangan" o bisaya o kung ano anong local dialects natin sa mga foreignerr XD

bugoytheman · Pseudo Ponderer

oo nga 'no...pero in order for us to have more authority to do that, dapat bihisa tayo both in english and our native dialect (or maybe another dialect)...di ba? at least hindi sila aangas-angas...di ba? hehehehe

roachy · 10CM - nurse bassist

hehe may punto nga naman... mahusay :D

KenMikaze · Enigbaboykage-ANBU

eh kung me punto, pag ang mga bisaya magtatagalog sa maynila eh pagtatawanan, eh di mag ingles na lang sila kahit minsan, daig pa ang ka-baw ingles.

now, back to the context of American Corporate English, even in the auspice of your work environment, use the Corporate babble sparsely; just like seasoning on a dish. Overusing it would make you sound like Satur et. al. (Terror fomenting war-mongers who enjoys the evisceration of the governance of the masses... now in this example, how does it sound?) biggrin

-- Edited by KenMikaze at 05:22, 2008-04-09

bugoytheman · Pseudo Ponderer

I am in an exporting firm, yet we just use corporate terms if it is "operationally needed".