I hate the word...

[seeker_two]

Can you please utilize something else as a bludgeon? 

"Essentially" and "Basically"

I know.  People use those words on a virtually constant basis.  I am literally sick of them. 

I also hate "virtually" and "literally".

Brad

Yeah, people utilize those words all the time, like it was mandatory or something.

Now I'm stymied......this is like that "one hand clapping" jive....

Maybe I can use a stakeholder on him......

[anygunanywhere]

All you folks have taken this thread to a high level.

I hate anything "continuous improvement".

Anygunanywhere

[280plus]

The stores that sell them call them hoodies.  I can't even remember what they used to be called.

Those would be "hooded sweatshirts".

Counted one "This is my great design" spiel out of one woman last night, in 2 minutes she used the word "space" 10 times. 

Other "design" buzzwords: Zen, pop, free flow design  . There are more. The other thing I notice is that they are all walking toward the camera and then stopping while spieling.

[Perd Hapley]

Is it grammatically correct to say things like "We should reverence God," rather than "We should revere God"?

How about predestinated, rather than predestined?  My spell checker tells me that the former is not even a word.  I would have to agree.

[DJJ]

Personally I've gotten to hate the word utilize.

You hear it a lot, and about 99% of the time it's used interchangably with "use," which means it's used incorrectly.

You got me wondering about the other 1% now. What's the correct use of utilize, where it's not interchangeble with "use"?

[GigaBuist]

Podcast annoys the crap out of me.

The term is webcast, unless you're specifically targeting iPod users.  Most "podcasts" however, target a much wider audience.

Negative.  A 'webcast' involves streaming media, with no real way for the end user to go back in time and recapture what's already been broadcast.

Now, 'podcast' is a stupid term, but Apple made it easy with iTunes + iPod so the term stuck.  That involves an already completed audio file being committed to disk and publishing its location to an RSS feed.  Audiofeed would have been my preferred term for the tech, but I don't get to make those decisions.

They're two entirely different animals.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Organic, when used to refer to anything that isn't.  Such as organic conversation, organic software, organic community.

[Racehorse]

I hate any and all variations of corporate lingo. Buzzwords that are so popular with management-types make me want to put my head through a brick wall.

"We have to capitalize on the synergistic deliverables of our newly aligned objectives in order to facilitate the maximization of analysis with a comprehensive high-level and drilled-down, tactical view of our ducks, which should all be in the proverbial row."

It's just agonizing.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://members.aol.com/matt999h/bullshit.htm
Corporate BS generator.  My favorite combination is "grow sexy partnerships"

[Tallpine]

Organic, when used to refer to anything that isn't.  Such as organic conversation, organic software, organic community.

Organic fertilizer, also known as BS 

[xavier fremboe]

The use of 'architect' as a verb, as in we need to architect a solution.  Also 'indexes' instead of 'indices', but that's a losing battle.

[Jamisjockey]

Green.
Its the new, in, hip thing to be green.  Everyone's pitching everything green.  I love watching soccer moms at the grocery store loading green products in disposable plastic containers into thier Esuvee! 

[Tallpine]

Green.
Its the new, in, hip thing to be green.  Everyone's pitching everything green.  I love watching soccer moms at the grocery store loading green products in disposable plastic containers into thier Esuvee! 

Green (uaine) is for wearing    Eirinn gu brath!

[drewtam]

Green.
Its the new, in, hip thing to be green.  Everyone's pitching everything green.  I love watching soccer moms at the grocery store loading green products in disposable plastic containers into thier Esuvee! 

The upside is that Kermit the frog is seeing a surge in popularity.

[Perd Hapley]

What is the "corporate" meaning of "drilled down" and "tactical"?

I am also annoyed by the use of "corporate" to mean "business-related."   

[Racehorse]

What is the "corporate" meaning of "drilled down" and "tactical"?

I am also annoyed by the use of "corporate" to mean "business-related."   

Drilled down = more detailed.
Tactical = specifics of implementation.

At least that's how I've heard them used.

I say corporate rather than business-related because this kind of language seems much more prevalent in large corporations than in small businesses. Although, it did run rampant in business school.

[brimic]

If I ever hear someone use the words 'Organic, Synergism, and leverage' in the same sentence again, someone will get throttled. I'm serious. Nothing is more useless to me than a corporate buzzword parroting clone who couldn't find his own arse with a mirror, two hands, and a funnel.

[crt360]

If I ever hear someone use the words 'Organic, Synergism, and leverage' in the same sentence again, someone will get throttled. I'm serious. Nothing is more useless to me than a corporate buzzword parroting clone who couldn't find his own arse with a mirror, two hands, and a funnel.

We've utilized organic metrics to leverage a synergism between human resources and insource marketing in part to architect a greener corporate vision.  Literally.

[MillCreek]

If I ever hear someone use the words 'Organic, Synergism, and leverage' in the same sentence again, someone will get throttled. I'm serious. Nothing is more useless to me than a corporate buzzword parroting clone who couldn't find his own arse with a mirror, two hands, and a funnel.

We've utilized organic metrics to leverage a synergism between human resources and insource marketing in part to architect a greener corporate vision.  Literally.

And we got buy-in from the internal and external stakeholders.

[xavier fremboe]

"Scrappy Kid from Scranton"

[anygunanywhere]

"Diverse" and "inclusion".

Anygunanywhere

[Physics]

Gonna have to go with "ARSENAL", because every time some idiot gets busted with a glock, a garand, and a couple hundred rounds, the media calls it an arsenal.

[Sawdust]

Arsenal?

Did somebody say that they hate Arsenal!? That's just...wrong.

 

Sawdust

[2swap]

Well, at least they're better than the 1. FC Köln!

I hate the term 'stymie' (it's just too irregular) and 'suboptimal' (when they mean another word, which also starts with s).

[coppertales]

"metrics", "atributes", and adding "okay" to the end of every sentence.......chris3