> 'Business English' is incredibly rife with this phenomenon? Anyone care to speculate as to why?

Business English advocates seem to love experimenting with language. There was a article in the NY Times which someone here URLed me to, where fulminations about their (mis)use of 'synergy' and other words are discussed by Mr. Safire. And that is probably one of their key concepts behind portmanteau wording, to create 'synergy', to use more affective and emotive language.


Mr Squiggle.