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words dumb people use to try to sound important/smart (pg. 3)
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| Inrush |
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| The Ear |
| quote: | Originally posted by She_Fitz
Leverage.
I guy I work with said the following..
I think we should leverage those tables at the back to put the food on. |
Please tell me you beat him.
Working in the consulting world, and now in the investment world, I had and still have the privalege of hearing some of the most moronic imaginable. I'll do my best to make a list of today's assinine malapropisms for a report tonight.
Oh, & back to "leverage", I once tore apart my sandwich and slapped someone in the face ever-so-gently with a piece of mortadella for using the term in a similar context to the one above. |
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| Superstring |
People from the IT/Consulting will appreciate this.
Team A architect: We have a web service. However, in order to fix bugs in the future we may have to change the WSDL. Everybody cool with that?
Team B architect: What? WSDL change? Well, please understand that even a spelling fix in one field inside a WSDL results in 5 days worth of work for our team.
Me: :conf: |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by She_Fitz
Leverage.
I guy I work with said the following..
I think we should leverage those tables at the back to put the food on. |
LOL NO!
I can't believe someone would actually say that!
Best reply in this thread so far.
Hahahahaha omg.
| quote: | Originally posted by The Ear
Oh, & back to "leverage", I once tore apart my sandwich and slapped someone in the face ever-so-gently with a piece of mortadella for using the term in a similar context to the one above. |
:stongue:
I could not think of a more appropriate response to something like that. |
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| She_Fitz |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
LOL NO!
I can't believe someone would actually say that!
Best reply in this thread so far.
Hahahahaha omg.
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Some days we keep a tally to see how many times he can use it. |
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| Dr. Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
metrics |
YES!
thats the one I was looking for, but couldn't remember.
idiots... |
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| MKpacha |
| quote: | Originally posted by Anton
"move [or moving] forward" in it |
omg.... SO over used in my office. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
-human scale urbanism:stongue: (as opposed to donkey scale urbanism?) |
bwahahaha
lol! |
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| SasH21 |
| Well, I agree there are some words that are ridiculous and are over used, but I think business English is more appropriate than using casual conversation. If you are working with high profile people, you can't talk to them like they are buddies. I think some of the phrases and words just show professionalism. Also, there is nothing wrong with using semi-colons or colons, if they are used correctly in a sentence, IMO. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by SasH21
Also, there is nothing wrong with using semi-colons or colons, if they are used correctly in a sentence, IMO. |
I agree with that - I use them on consistent basis in my work emails |
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| SasH21 |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
I agree with that - I use them on consistent basis in my work emails |
So do I. I took a few business writing classes as part of my Journalism and English major at my university, and some punctuation rules differ from standard English. |
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