Rube Goldberg Communications

Rube Goldberg Communications

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Are you familiar with Rube Goldberg? He gained fame as a cartoonist and inventor of complicated machines that performed simple actions.

Kinetic artist Joseph Herscher provides a modern-day example of a Rube Goldberg machine.

The hallmark of Rube Goldberg communications is using a complicated, convoluted sentence when a simple one would provide the same information.

It’s using five-syllable words where two syllables mean the same thing—juxtaposition instead of nearness.

It’s confusing instead of clarifying.

It’s annoying and demotivating.

Are you a Rube Goldberg communicator?

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