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>>>You may know I'm a bit of a language purist, but I love the fact that we can "brown bag" our lunch, et al.
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>>That phrase conveys meaningful imagery though.
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>>>If you're so purist don't let me ever catch you talking of "leveraging" an application (detest that expr.!) or "fragrancing" (ugh!) a room with a new air freshener :-)
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>>It's not that I'm really a purist, but no. You will never catch me saying "Let's do lunch", or "I'm tasking that", or "We need to aggendize that item for the meeting", or any of that business buzzword bingo nonsense.
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>Pleased to hear it. Several years ago I was at a new software seminar, can't remember which product. The speaker kept being interrupted, particularly by we take that offline and discuss it in the break?". Now if I'd had a gun ...

I think my favourite is "telephonically communicated", since it is so much easier to say than "by phone". ie- It was telephonically communicated to the CEO on Monday rather than the much more cumbersome It was given to the CEO by phone on Monday

On the other hand "Cellulite" instead of 'fat', or "Wellness" instead of 'health' have really enriched the language (or if not the language, at least the snake oil industry).