The Lexicon.
The words they use when they mean us.
Every restructuring announcement comes with a vocabulary. The vocabulary always lands before the layoff. By the time the press release goes out, the language has done most of the work. The Lexicon is the bottle the words get put back in.
Each entry: the phrase, what corporate comms means by it, who said it on the record, and what we call it instead. Verbatim. Dated. Sourced. If the receipt walks back, we keep the receipt. Now searchable.
How to read an entry.
- In the deck · What the phrase does inside a corporate memo. The clinical reading.
- The receipt · The verbatim quote. Name. Date. Source link.
- What it means · What the phrase is actually doing — to whom, by whom, with whose approval.
Heard a phrase that belongs here?
The Lexicon grows by reader receipts. If a phrase shows up in a memo, an earnings call, an internal Slack screenshot, a town hall, or a deck — send it. We need the phrase, the name, the date, and a source link or file. We protect the source.
tips@cancelclankers.com · PGP available on request.
The Lexicon grows every week.
Sign the Roster. We send the receipts before the apology hits the wire.