Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on August 22, 2008, 09:40:55 AM
Post by: griz on August 22, 2008, 10:32:47 AM
Post by: AJ Dual on August 22, 2008, 10:34:56 AM
I hate to use the word, but what's webinar?
Web + Seminar = Webinar...
Post by: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 10:42:18 AM
At least "Paradigm Shift" has started to go out of fashion.
Brad
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on August 22, 2008, 10:43:04 AM
Post by: grislyatoms on August 22, 2008, 10:44:26 AM
"Did y'all see the size of that webinar up under the sink?"
Post by: grislyatoms on August 22, 2008, 10:53:48 AM
"I need you to facilitate the handling of this project."
Translation - "I assigned this project to a jackass and now I need you to bail all of us out of the mess we created."
Post by: K Frame on August 22, 2008, 10:59:24 AM
You hear it a lot, and about 99% of the time it's used interchangably with "use," which means it's used incorrectly.
Post by: JonnyB on August 22, 2008, 11:01:54 AM
jb
Post by: Tallpine on August 22, 2008, 11:07:56 AM
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At least "Paradigm Shift" has started to go out of fashion.
Basically, all of the new Paradigms utilize automatic transmissions.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 22, 2008, 11:17:22 AM
"metrics", "fusion", "synergy"
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 22, 2008, 11:55:54 AM
"Essentially" and "Basically"
I know. People use those words on a virtually constant basis. I am literally sick of them.
Post by: Harold Tuttle on August 22, 2008, 12:22:19 PM
Guess what?
Sometimes there are worries
Post by: griz on August 22, 2008, 12:30:47 PM
human resource
department of defence (we used to have a War Department, which is a lot more proactive than defence)
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 22, 2008, 12:32:32 PM
hoodie - I even heard that from a reporter once.
Post by: Scout26 on August 22, 2008, 12:37:42 PM
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Re: I hate the word...
Fistful.....
Completely overused......
Post by: seeker_two on August 22, 2008, 12:41:38 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 22, 2008, 12:46:26 PM
Post by: Manedwolf on August 22, 2008, 01:03:44 PM
I hate to use the word, but what's webinar?
It's when they use that software that never works right, where they're trying to show you their screen while on a conference call, but they click the wrong thing and then everyone spends twenty minutes looking at their desktop while they try to get it going right.
Post by: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 01:05:40 PM
"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
Post by: 280plus on August 22, 2008, 01:07:14 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 22, 2008, 01:35:57 PM
"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.
Post by: crt360 on August 22, 2008, 01:47:08 PM
hoodie - I even heard that from a reporter once.
Everyone uses that now. The stores that sell them call them hoodies. I can't even remember what they used to be called.
It's got to be a fact that most wanted criminals were last seen in dark colored hoodies.
I have a dark colored hoodie. Sometimes, . . when I put it on, . . I think about being a wanted criminal, . . just for a little bit.
Post by: MillCreek on August 22, 2008, 02:23:14 PM
As in: "we need to get consensus from the stakeholders"
Post by: Regolith on August 22, 2008, 04:02:09 PM
The term is webcast, unless you're specifically targeting iPod users. Most "podcasts" however, target a much wider audience.
Post by: seeker_two on August 22, 2008, 05:56:01 PM
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......
Post by: anygunanywhere on August 23, 2008, 01:36:26 AM
I hate anything "continuous improvement".
Anygunanywhere
Post by: 280plus on August 23, 2008, 03:16:06 AM
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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.
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 23, 2008, 06:27:42 PM
How about predestinated, rather than predestined? My spell checker tells me that the former is not even a word. I would have to agree.
Post by: DJJ on August 23, 2008, 06:31:13 PM
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"?
You hear it a lot, and about 99% of the time it's used interchangably with "use," which means it's used incorrectly.
Post by: GigaBuist on August 23, 2008, 07:47:13 PM
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.
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.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on August 25, 2008, 09:09:32 AM
Post by: Racehorse on August 25, 2008, 09:18:39 AM
"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.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on August 25, 2008, 09:21:40 AM
Corporate BS generator. My favorite combination is "grow sexy partnerships"
Post by: Tallpine on August 25, 2008, 11:19:34 AM
Organic, when used to refer to anything that isn't. Such as organic conversation, organic software, organic community.
Organic fertilizer, also known as BS
Post by: xavier fremboe on August 25, 2008, 11:43:46 AM
Post by: Jamisjockey on August 25, 2008, 11:48:25 AM
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!
Post by: Tallpine on August 25, 2008, 12:12:05 PM
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!
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!
Post by: drewtam on August 25, 2008, 12:15:02 PM
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!
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.
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 25, 2008, 12:54:09 PM
I am also annoyed by the use of "corporate" to mean "business-related."
Post by: Racehorse on August 25, 2008, 01:21:09 PM
What is the "corporate" meaning of "drilled down" and "tactical"?
I am also annoyed by the use of "corporate" to mean "business-related."
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.
Post by: brimic on August 25, 2008, 01:41:05 PM
Post by: crt360 on August 25, 2008, 01:58:14 PM
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.
Post by: MillCreek on August 25, 2008, 02:49:11 PM
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.
Post by: xavier fremboe on August 26, 2008, 03:06:05 PM
Post by: anygunanywhere on August 26, 2008, 03:09:25 PM
Anygunanywhere
Post by: Physics on August 26, 2008, 03:45:37 PM
Post by: Sawdust on August 27, 2008, 05:43:58 AM
Did somebody say that they hate Arsenal!? That's just...wrong.
Sawdust
Post by: 2swap on August 27, 2008, 06:15:52 AM
I hate the term 'stymie' (it's just too irregular) and 'suboptimal' (when they mean another word, which also starts with s).
Post by: coppertales on August 27, 2008, 08:38:26 AM
Post by: Desertdog on August 27, 2008, 09:48:11 AM
I want to say...
I wanted to say ...
T would like to say.... (and then goes on and says it.)
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on August 27, 2008, 06:17:01 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 27, 2008, 06:20:06 PM
Post by: Kaylee on August 27, 2008, 07:26:09 PM
Sure I had my fill of "paradigm" in college, but on reflection, if any one word has been more responsible for human misery in the last generation than "Deserve" I don't know what it could be.
From credit card ads pitching an unaffordable lifestyle to grievance politics... there ain't nothing that can't be made worse by generating a nice angry sense of entitlement. So yeah, anytime I hear someone saying "I/you/we/ deserve it..." I get a little itchy.
Post by: don on August 27, 2008, 07:41:11 PM
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on September 06, 2008, 10:07:06 PM
When filing a complaint with the police about my neighbor's dog's incessant barking the clerk handed me a form and instead of saying, "Fill this out, please." said, "You need to fill this out." I couldn't stop myself from saying, "It may be a requirement that I do so, but I assure that in the doing I will not be fulfilled in any way, so therefore I don't need to do it.", and of course got a blank look from her in return.
.............
Instant verbs. Someone is said to "reference" something rather than "refer to" it; actors and actresses no longer "perform a cameo" or have a cameo role, they are now said to have "cameod"; when two people who are normally single acts perform a song together they are now said to have "dueted" rather than sung a duet (thankfully I haven't read or heard of anyone "trioing").
And for the last farging time, "disrespect" is not a verb!
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Referring (nudge, nudge) to second example above: Misusing or refusing to use words in an attempt to be "non-sexist" or "non-gender-specific", as in calling women who perform on stage or screen as "actors", or even worse, "female actors". Gender-specific words denote difference, not superiority or inferiority.
.............
The needless personalization of things.
The sales clerk who hands you your credit card slip and says, "Will you sign this for me?", or points to the card reader and says "Put in your PIN number for me." I'm not doing it for you, I'm doing it because it's part of the transaction.
At a local high school track and field meet I heard the P.A. announcer repeatedly say, "I need all participants in (event) to report to the scorer's tent." You do? If they don't will you be unfulfilled? Say rather, "All contestants in (event) please report to the scorer's tent." (As an aside, note that the announcer said "participants" while I used the proper "contestants". If they were just "participants" then no one would bother keeping track of who won.)
I could go on but it's late.
P.S. PIN number, VIN number, ATM machine.
Help stamp out and abolish redundancy!
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 07, 2008, 05:01:38 AM
And for the last farging time, "disrespect" is not a verb!
Uncle Bubba, if I may remark that you respect the English language, may I not also remark that others disrespect the English language?
Post by: Uncle Bubba on September 07, 2008, 07:24:39 AM
In trying to figure out how to define what I mean I found this at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disrespect.html:
'The hip-hop subculture has revived the use of disrespect as a verb. In the meaning to have or show disrespect, this usage has been long established, if unusual. However, the new street meaning of the term, ordinarily abbreviated to dis, is slightly but significantly different: to act disrespectfully, ormore frequentlyinsultingly toward someone. In some neighborhoods dissing is defined as merely failing to show sufficient terror in the face of intimidation. In those neighborhoods, it is wise to know how the term is used; but an applicant for a job who complains about having been disrespected elsewhere is likely to incur further disrespect . . . and no job. Street slang has its uses, but this is one instance that has not become generally accepted.'
It can be used as a verb, what I detest is its misuse as a verb.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 07, 2008, 07:26:48 AM
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on September 07, 2008, 10:19:44 AM
(Speaking of a scene removed from the original release) "Ultimately, he surrenders(,) wearying of Immortal life and willing to suicide himself."
You don't "suicide". You commit suicide.
Post by: Jamisjockey on September 07, 2008, 10:29:25 AM
*let's not go there*. Possibly the worst word in the english language, due to its usage. I'm not a PC person generally, but this is the most ignorant and offensive word I can think of, no matter who spews it forth.
And, being white, I usually hear it in this sentance
"I'm not racist, but there are Niggers and there are black people".
Okay, yes, that sentance makes you racist. There is trash in every race, creed, color and religion.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 07, 2008, 08:28:23 PM
I usually hear it in this sentence
"I'm not racist, but there are Ni**ers and there are black people".
"I'm not racist, but there are Ni**ers and there are black people".
Yeah, I get both of those from time to time.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 16, 2008, 04:47:15 PM
Then there's "fewer" and "less." "Fewer" should be used for discrete quantities, and "less" for indiscrete. "Fewer criminals, less crime."
And recently, I've really begun to hate the use of prepositions at the end of sentences. The end is not where the preposition should be at.
Post by: seeker_two on September 16, 2008, 05:27:18 PM
Post by: Umber on September 16, 2008, 05:47:39 PM
Umber
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Post by: BridgeRunner on September 16, 2008, 07:13:37 PM
It's what law students and more than a few lawyers say when they don't want to come up with some non-irritating way of questioning the veracity of just about anything. One woman in my group tried using it four times in one paragraph today.
Post by: Uncle Bubba on September 16, 2008, 07:36:49 PM
We seem to have forgotten the word "hatred." I don't know if it is really acceptable to use "hate" as a noun, but it sounds wrong to me. Usually, it's when some leftist twit accuses someone of "preaching hate." Of course, left-wing twittery is always annoying, but shouldn't they say "preaching hatred"? So, it's a double-whammy for me.
Then there's "fewer" and "less." "Fewer" should be used for discrete quantities, and "less" for indiscrete. "Fewer criminals, less crime."
And recently, I've really begun to hate the use of prepositions at the end of sentences. The end is not where the preposition should be at.
Then there's "fewer" and "less." "Fewer" should be used for discrete quantities, and "less" for indiscrete. "Fewer criminals, less crime."
And recently, I've really begun to hate the use of prepositions at the end of sentences. The end is not where the preposition should be at.
Ever heard the one about the country boy who got a scholarship to Harvard? His first day on campus he asked a passing upperclassman "'Scuse me. Can you tell me where the library's at?" The upperclassman looked down his nose and said, "At Hahvahd, we do not end a sentence with a preposition!"
To which the country boy replied, "OK. Can you tell me where the library's at, a$$hole?"
Post by: BridgeRunner on September 16, 2008, 07:43:34 PM
And recently, I've really begun to hate the use of prepositions at the end of sentences. The end is not where the preposition should be at.
The "where are you at" thing bugs me a whole lot, but in plenty of situations hanging a preposition on the end is the clearest way to say what one needs to say. Clarity wins out over fussiness by me any day.
And, um, like, y'know.
Hate it all the more so because it is so farking contagious. I catch 'em sneaking in from time to time.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 16, 2008, 07:49:30 PM
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Post by: LadySmith on September 21, 2008, 03:18:10 AM
I've gotta say it:
*let's not go there*. Possibly the worst word in the english language, due to its usage. I'm not a PC person generally, but this is the most ignorant and offensive word I can think of, no matter who spews it forth.
And, being white, I usually hear it in this sentance
"I'm not racist, but there are Niggers and there are black people".
Okay, yes, that sentance makes you racist. There is trash in every race, creed, color and religion.
*let's not go there*. Possibly the worst word in the english language, due to its usage. I'm not a PC person generally, but this is the most ignorant and offensive word I can think of, no matter who spews it forth.
And, being white, I usually hear it in this sentance
"I'm not racist, but there are Niggers and there are black people".
Okay, yes, that sentance makes you racist. There is trash in every race, creed, color and religion.
I used to think that was bad, but now I think the worst word I could ever be called would be "victim".
Also, I really and truly detest when someone pronounces the "w" in "sword".
Post by: Intune on September 21, 2008, 03:56:50 AM
Post by: grislyatoms on September 21, 2008, 04:22:11 AM
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And, um, like, y'know.
Hate it all the more so because it is so farking contagious. I catch 'em sneaking in from time to time.
Hate it all the more so because it is so farking contagious. I catch 'em sneaking in from time to time.
Y'know can get really irritating. I have a co-worker addicted to y'know. At EVERY little pause in his speaking (which is about every third word
), he throws in a y'know.Sometimes I feel like screaming "Yes, I know, now get to the damned point!"
Post by: RocketMan on September 21, 2008, 12:30:54 PM
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Post by: Iapetus on September 30, 2008, 08:11:12 AM
And for the last farging time, "disrespect" is not a verb!
A dictionary I was browsing through recently, published in the 1970s, described the use of "disrespect" as a verb as "archaic".
According to the "Online Etymology Dictionary", (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disrespect, about half way down the page) the use of disrespect as a verb predates it as a noun (1614 vs. 1631).
Another particularly hideous (IMO) new use of language, almost ubiquitous in the UK (espescially by the government and the BBC) is using "faith" an adjective, as a synonym for "religious".
E.g. "Faith schools", "The faith community". (And if no-one has already said it, I'll also add "community" when used to describe any group/catagory of people - e.g. "the unemployed community").
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 30, 2008, 08:13:44 AM
Another particularly hideous (IMO) new use of language, almost ubiquitous in the UK (espescially by the government and the BBC) is using "faith" an adjective, as a synonym for "religious".
E.g. "Faith schools", "The faith community". (And if no-one has already said it, I'll also add "community" when used to describe any group/catagory of people - e.g. "the unemployed community").
E.g. "Faith schools", "The faith community". (And if no-one has already said it, I'll also add "community" when used to describe any group/catagory of people - e.g. "the unemployed community").
Agreed.