If I hear that word again i'll...

ppar3566

ppar3566

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Ok so if I hear someone from business use the phrase "moving forward" once more i'll explode. I had to sit through a presentation recently by a young consultant who used the phrase at least 10 times in a 15 minute presentation (thats a moving forward every 1 1/2 minutes. Since then every business meeting or discussion seems to use the phrase.

So my great idea is this. Lets have a good old fashion book... I mean weasel word burning. Post here words or phrases that you hear at work/school/college that you hate and why you hate them and we will have a virtual burning.

Yay for fire.:D
 
possessives

that word was the bane in english 102 and comm. 295 journalism. it seems like every person in the world has problems with possessives and the teacher has to spend 20minutes a day addressing it
 
I'm sure my co-workers would love to burn "Sternocleidomastoid." It's the "$5 word" I picked up during my paramedic training. And yes *nods* I even know where it is, what it does, and how to check if it's injured...

While nodding, I used both the right and left sternocleidomastoids multiple times. Both of mine appear to be intact and uninjured.
 
I can't believe I didn't make this thread years ago.

I can't believe I wasn't the one to start the thread today.

Weasel words, eh?

Having personally witnessed the atrocities corporate American continues to perpetrate against the English language, I could write up a long list of offenses.

Here are a few that haunt my dreams:
  • Grow the brand.
  • Grow the company.
  • Low-hanging fruit.
  • "Come to Jesus" meeting (No, I'm not kidding, I actually heard executive-level men in their 40s using this phrase in 2007. I couldn't make this stuff up if I was trying.)
  • Reduction in force.
What we really need is a translation guide for such English violations.

EDIT: Two more:
  • At the end of the day
  • Listen, ... (Often repeated during anarchic Crossfire-style television shows)
 
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I get so sick of the word "learners." It's the buzzword for education. There are no students anymore: they are "learners."

Look, you have to STUDY. You can't just count on learning casually occurring. Studying is ACTIVE! YOU have to take responsibility for what you do. You don't just sit and "learn" while being spoonfed stuff.

(Can you tell whose husband is now working in education and getting a degree? Sigh...)

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The second one I get sick of that hasn't been mentioned is "on the same page." If you're reading a script or following sheet music, it's very appropriate. Otherwise, it's just annoying.

(And I'm with you on "moving forward." Unless someone has a working time machine I don't know about, it's not like we have a plethora of other options...)

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"Grow" the company, "grow" the brand, "grow" the industry... Yes, I know there has been an established transitive usage of the verb for "growing a beard" or "growing wheat". However, using it in a transitive sense for nonphysical things still strikes me as just plain silly!
 
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MaidMirawyn said:
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"Grow" the company, "grow" the brand, "grow" the industry... Yes, I know there has been an established transitive usage of the verb for "growing a beard" or "growing wheat". However, using it in a transitive sense for nonphysical things still strikes me as just plain silly!
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/cheer
 
Honestly, this may be a personal rant of mine, yet i hate the word "but".

The word "but" basically says: everything you said is erased and therefor is not valid nor is your opinion valid or worthy.

dunno just always rubbed me the wrong way.... then again theres another phrase:

"rubbed the wrong way"
 
I think this thread would be more fun if not only you spouted the jargon you dislike, you also replace it with terminology that you would prefer.

For example, you have grown tired of "Grow the brand" or you think "Grow the company" as being silly, you also provide what you would find acceptable to mean the same thing. Learner is better as student.

Quite honestly, it's not sayings or jargon that bothers me, it people who say "here is a problem" or "I have a problem with" and then walk away without a solution. So my solution to my own "If I hear about a problem again with out a solution", is to attempt to make this thread about solutions too.
 
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Ditzy girls always use "like" a thousand times in a sentence. "I like, totally saw that, and like, I like totally thought of you, and like, how amazing it would look on you, and like..."
 
tjguitarz said:
Ditzy girls always use "like" a thousand times in a sentence. "I like, totally saw that, and like, I like totally thought of you, and like, how amazing it would look on you, and like..."
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the solution to that one is to just not say it and it would help them be grammatically correct
 
Atown said:
the solution to that one is to just not say it and it would help them be grammatically correct
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A better solution is to install a subcutaneous electro-shock therapy device that emits a small jolt of electricity every time they say "like."
 
vibrokatana said:
Duct tape and rope is cheaper.
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This thread suddenly took a twisted disturbing turn.

Back to the topic at hand, I thought of yet another phrase that gets on my last nerve: "Shut up!" as used as a "Oh my goodness!" reply by "fashionable" women.
 
Hahah....or.....

"That's the bomb DOT COM!"

bwahaha that's so stupid it's funny.

But the "shut up" made me think of that.

Hahahahah........
 
Actually, quite honest, when I posted above what I did I was quite on edge. Reading through your posts it has become quite appearant that most people here tend to lean left or to the socialist spectrum of the scale.

So in the spirit of this thread, if I hear atrocities in combination with corporate america one more time, I'm going to blow up. Wait a minute, I already did in this thread. Imagine that :) Now that I win, what did I win?
 
Ember said:
Hahah....or.....

"That's the bomb DOT COM!"
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...Wait, what? What does that even mean? It's so stupid, it's baffling.

Sounds like something you'd hear on a "very special episode of" Beverly Hills 90210: The Mid-life Crisis Years.
 
Tek7 said:
...Wait, what? What does that even mean? It's so stupid, it's baffling.

Sounds like something you'd hear on a "very special episode of" Beverly Hills 90210: The Mid-life Crisis Years.
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Never underestimate the stupidity of people trying to use "trendy" words.

You wouldn't believe the number of people who try to play off of web 2.0, ajax and God knows what else. Sadly these people usually have an "xhtml valid" sticker slathered on to their website, yet their site fails validation. That is like screaming your awesome, when in fact you are partially naked and everyone is gasping in horrer or running in fear. This paragraph makes no sense in hindsight.
 
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