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boonecreek

(1,506 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2026, 10:23 PM Friday

Someone built a translator for "Linkedin Speak" and it's hilarious.

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https://www.boredpanda.com/google-translator-linkedin-funny/?cexp_id=149316&cexp_var=17&_f=homepage_featured

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Someone built a translator for "Linkedin Speak" and it's hilarious. (Original Post) boonecreek Friday OP

Holy cow Kagi built this LearnedHand Friday #1

APP! If you save the bookmark to your home screen LearnedHand Friday #2

Brilliant...thank you! Works like a charm. Drum Yesterday #6

More, in The Guardian's Pass Notes column: muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #3

LinkedIn is ridiculous. r�is�n_dubh Yesterday #4

Linked-In is kind of a joke in Corp land GenThePerservering Yesterday #5

LearnedHand

(5,457 posts)

1. Holy cow Kagi built this

Reply to boonecreek (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 10:44 PM

Friday

https://translate.kagi.com/

Kagi is an amazing subscription-based search engine that doesn’t sell your data. They are doing amazing things. I had no idea they are doing translation too. I sure hope they make. Kagi translation app. I use Google Translate very heavily when I travel. (Home too, for language learning.)

Note: LinkedIn translate is listed in the Fun Languages group selector.

LearnedHand

(5,457 posts)

2. APP! If you save the bookmark to your home screen

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 10:50 PM

Friday

On your mobile device, it creates an app like Google Translate. I will be so glad to not use this Google product.

Drum

(10,666 posts)

6. Brilliant...thank you! Works like a charm.

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:31 PM

Yesterday

muriel_volestrangler

(106,160 posts)

3. More, in The Guardian's Pass Notes column:

Reply to boonecreek (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:48 AM

Yesterday

Does your business English let you down? Turn it into pure corporate gibberish with LinkedIn Speak

...
So? So imagine if you just wandered in and wrote something inane, such as: “I just saw a lovely donkey.” You would never be promoted again.

But what if I really did see a lovely donkey? Then you write: “I recently had a powerful reminder that consistent effort and carrying the heavy loads often go unrecognised, yet they are the backbone of any successful operation.”
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Wow. Even better, the app works backwards, so you can paste in someone’s real LinkedIn update and it will translate it back to plain English.

Really? Yes. So something like, “Under our Corporate Strategy 2027, we have outlined our aim to drive growth through synergies across existing business segments,” becomes, “Our plan basically boils down to hoping our different departments actually talk to each other so we can finally make some money.”

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/24/does-your-business-english-let-you-down-turn-it-into-pure-corporate-gibberish-with-linkedin-speak

r�is�n_dubh

(12,324 posts)

4. LinkedIn is ridiculous.

Reply to boonecreek (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 12:00 PM

Yesterday

My former best friend has been in the corporate world for as long as I can remember and she made a St Patrick's Day post the other week that was the most ridiculous corporate claptrap I've read in quite awhile. About being "Irish" (she's blessed with an Irish surname but is 5th or 6th generation and has never set foot in the country. I was flabbergasted.
It's a mockery, bullshit. We give our better students awards for their work in our clinic and you'd think they'd won an Olympic gold medal for the way they spice up the "achievement" (it's really nothing more than doing what they're friggin' supposed to and having slightly more sentience than the other students).
I hate it. I look for job adverts on it and nothing more. I cannot stomach having to engage with the fakery on there.

GenThePerservering

(3,336 posts)

5. Linked-In is kind of a joke in Corp land

Reply to boonecreek (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:24 PM

Yesterday

Not sure anyone except the corp babblers even take it seriously. That translator is hysterical 🤣

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