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I hate the word...
« on: August 22, 2008, 09:40:55 AM »
...webinar.  It gives me gas.  I'm in a "webinar" with some people from AHRQ.gov.  I hate webinars.  I also think it's funny that the Government health nazi woman giving the webinar has handy bookmarks to myspace, facebook, and yahoo webmail on her IE bookmarks toolbar.  Plus, she has all those really nifty marketing and spyware toolbars installed. 
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 10:32:47 AM »
I hate to use the word, but what's webinar?
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2008, 10:34:56 AM »
Quote from: griz on August 22, 2008, 09:32:47 AM
I hate to use the word, but what's webinar?

Web + Seminar = Webinar...

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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2008, 10:42:18 AM »
"Essentially" and "Basically"  because essentially everyone basically uses them at spurious and random moments.  Basically it essentially makes me want to puke.

At least "Paradigm Shift" has started to go out of fashion.

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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2008, 10:43:04 AM »
I also hate "drill down."
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2008, 10:44:26 AM »
"Webinar" - Texas phrase referring to the domiciliary habits of certain arachnids...

"Did y'all see the size of that webinar up under the sink?"

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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2008, 10:53:48 AM »
I am getting a little sick of "facilitate".

"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."
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2008, 10:59:24 AM »
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.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2008, 11:01:54 AM »
I have a manager whose vocabulary could be used at any of the so-called "management" seminars. Straight out of a book. Of course, it's not just the vocabulary; it's the management style as well.

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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2008, 11:17:22 AM »
I'll give you a paradigms and a nickel and you give me a quarter.

"metrics", "fusion", "synergy"
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2008, 11:55:54 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 09:42:18 AM
"Essentially" and "Basically"

I know.  People use those words on a virtually constant basis.  I am literally sick of them. 
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2008, 12:22:19 PM »
I HATE the phrase "No Worries" because my pretentious moonbat of a boss would use it all the time.

Guess what?

Sometimes there are worries
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2008, 12:30:47 PM »
proactive

human resource

department of defence (we used to have a War Department, which is a lot more proactive than defence)
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2008, 12:32:32 PM »
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hoodie - I even heard that from a reporter once.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2008, 12:37:42 PM »
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Fistful.....


Completely overused......


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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2008, 12:41:38 PM »
"Mandatory"......I'm just about sick of "mandatory".....I'll probably beat someone with fistful until he breaks in half if I hear the word "mandatory" again this week.....  angry
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2008, 12:46:26 PM »
Can you please utilize something else as a bludgeon? 
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2008, 01:03:44 PM »
Quote from: griz on August 22, 2008, 09:32:47 AM
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.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2008, 01:05:40 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 22, 2008, 10:55:54 AM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 09:42:18 AM
"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".

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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2008, 01:07:14 PM »
I like to count how many times they use the word "space" on those hackmaster design shows on HGTV. It really annoys my wife when I do. But that's not why I do it.  angel
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2008, 01:35:57 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 12:05:40 PM
Quote from: fistful on August 22, 2008, 10:55:54 AM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 09:42:18 AM
"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.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2008, 01:47:08 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 22, 2008, 11:32:32 AM

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.
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2008, 02:23:14 PM »
'Stakeholder'

As in: "we need to get consensus from the stakeholders"
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Re: I hate the word...
« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2008, 04:02:09 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.
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