The sell-side analysis group in Mumbai must be the world’s most well mannered. Rare is the analyst who will use an unkind phrase if a extra painless and pointless various will be discovered — or invented. But tactfulness extracted a value six years in the past, and it might come to chew once more. Last time, hassle erupted in banking. This time, it’s brewing in outsourcing.

As George Orwell stated in Politics and the English Language, the decline of language in the end has political and financial causes. Stockbrokers in India use empty phrases as a tribute to company energy. So, gross sales and revenue don’t decline for big Indian outsourcing corporations, they “degrow.” A workforce doesn’t shrink; the addition of workers turns damaging.