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Old 05-24-2019, 08:38 PM   #32941
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Old 05-24-2019, 09:46 PM   #32942
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Old 05-24-2019, 09:52 PM   #32943
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Another irritant is "Challenges" when it is used as corporate-speak for Problems or Difficulties.

I had a hard enough time adjusting to troubled/troublesome folks "having issues" (I am afraid I will always associate "issue" with "magazine" or consider it a synonym for "topic"), but when I started getting memos signed off with "Do let us know if you have any challenges with this," I startled my co-workers with shrieks of despair.

If you call it a "challenge" it is no longer a "problem." If you call it an "issue" it is no longer a "problem." See? All your problems are solved! (you only had to re-name them.)
Funny story from a place I used to work. The gals were talking about someone, and one of them said, "She's got issues..." Another co-worker didn't hear this correctly, and asked what "Scottish shoes" had to do with anything.
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Old 05-25-2019, 07:43 PM   #32944
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...one of them said, "She's got issues..." Another co-worker didn't hear this correctly, and asked what "Scottish shoes" had to do with anything.
Maybe her ears were clogged?
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Old 05-25-2019, 09:20 PM   #32945
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Another irritant is "Challenges" when it is used as corporate-speak for Problems or Difficulties.
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I had a boss who referred to these as "opportunities."

I finally told him one day that I was surrounded by insurmountable opportunities.
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Old 05-27-2019, 04:40 AM   #32946
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Well, now that I'm retired, I _can_ just say it. With feeling. Though the one that really gets me is the misuse of "moot".

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One of my pet annoyances is the mispronunciation (or, more correctly, word misuse) when people say "it's a mute point". And it happens a lot.
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Old 05-28-2019, 08:47 AM   #32947
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One of my pet annoyances is the mispronunciation (or, more correctly, word misuse) when people say "it's a mute point". And it happens a lot.
It's only a mute point to deaf listeners. . . .
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Old 05-28-2019, 09:03 AM   #32948
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RTFM? What does this mean?
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Old 05-28-2019, 09:16 AM   #32949
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Now I've run across what I thought was a misuse of "hung", but Merriam-Webster tells me that the distinction between "hung" and "hanged" serves no useful purpose and is considered unimportant.

I think my new motto is going to be "Everything I don't need to know I learned in 'grammer' school"...
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Old 05-28-2019, 09:40 AM   #32950
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NYPD Blue is the villain on that one. The David Caruso character's dialogue popularized that particular phrase--"reaching out to" coming to mean, "contacting so-and-so."

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Hiw about those old 1970s and 80s phone commercials with the "reach out, reach out and touch someone"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt6DvapiK-w
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Old 05-28-2019, 09:41 AM   #32951
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Another more recent one that bugs me is "lean into". I don't have a good example and frankly, when I've heard it it didn't fully make sense to me.
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Old 05-28-2019, 11:39 AM   #32952
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RTFM? What does this mean?
Read The Freaking Manual

At least that's the translation I can use here.
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Old 05-28-2019, 03:22 PM   #32953
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Or, Read the Fine Manual. Or Read the Furnished Manual. Etc. Etc. But it doesn't help, because they don't, and even if they claim they did, chances are they don't actually follow the instructions.

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Old 05-28-2019, 04:47 PM   #32954
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Or, Read the Fine Manual. Or Read the Furnished Manual. Etc. Etc. But it doesn't help, because they don't, and even if they claim they did, chances are they don't actually follow the instructions.

Charlie.
And even if they do, the Fine Manual is usually a very poor translation from the Mandarin, and is effectively incomprehensible.
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Old 05-28-2019, 05:30 PM   #32955
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Has good(sic) ereader always had lots of articles that just regurgitated press releases with no pretense of adding value?

Today, they've spewed one on a BookNet Canada study about library users buying books and another one about an Amazon study about reading making us happier.

And for some reason this angers me
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