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Making an effort to write clearly and concisely is more difficult than it may seem. In the Business community it is important to limit the descriptive narrative high school and college papers once asked for, and trade it in for clear cut English. Business culture asks for "get to the point" attitude. There is no room for eloquent Shakespearean iambic pentameter verses which dwell in deep thoughts and that require hours to interpret. Efficiency and effectiveness is the name of the game in Business. All business is about results and how to increase productivity and profitability. It would be impossible to have any size business function well with sentences like:

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;........"

 People would never go home trying to decipher poetic prose or ever sleep, trying to write and read such complex language. Within the business atmosphere a simple "I feel terribly sad" would have saved Hamlet time and his employer money.

While oversimplifying Shakespeare's romantic prose would seem a vulgar attack on the classics it represents how high school and college students are taught to think about their prose- as if it were art. Shakespeare would not be the greatest business impresario of our time because of his language style.  Perhaps relevant during his era, floral emotive language has no place in the Business world and would hinder communication or maybe even bankrupt the company. We live in a world were people communicate and function in a fast-paced environment. This fast-paced world has transformed the English language into a plethora of acronyms. LOL, WTG, and JK would revolt Shakespeare, the same can be said for a business setting. Being too descriptive maybe cumbersome, but oversimplifying words into letters reaches the opposite extreme of inadequate business language.

High School and College Students live a "Tale of Two Cities." They are taught Shakespeare and Homer in classroom, and walk out of classroom into the modern viral world of texting. As soon as a teenager receives there own personal cell phone they are corrupted by the ease of butchering words into acronyms. OMG-ing and LOL-ing seep into students everyday routine, and become difficult to avoid when entering the business workforce environment. Students should practice filtering their language always trying to maintain a fine line between too descriptive and too alphabetical. 

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