ah that reminds me of when small startup SUSE was acquired by Big Corporation Novell. German engineers saying "no" and "yes" and "the F word! in meetings!" met very polite Corporate Americans who had twenty supportive soundings ways of saying no.

like

"this is an interesting idea" -> no

"we need to discuss this further" -> no

"can you help me better understand?" -> no

the only yes was "I do it, by such and such date"

so the jargon created a culture clash which only accelerated the decline.