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What words annoy you?
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30/04/2009 08:55:12
 
 
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20/04/2009 14:18:00
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Politics
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>>Good ones.
>>
>>I don't have an answer to your definition of solution, BTW <g>.
>>
>>>Pretty much any 'buzzword' that's overused and misunderstood, like:
>>>
>>>Empowerment: All the responsibility, none of the authority
>>>Synergy: Do it our way
>>>Customers: No, they're USERS, dammit!
>>>Solution: You don't the the problem
>>>
>>>>I just came across a word I seem to see more and more, and it sets my teeth on edge every time. The word is "stakeholders." Something about it just rubs me the wrong way. It sounds like such a made-up word, something a management consultant might say. Or maybe a life coach <g>.
>>>>
>>>>It would be premature to call it the MOST annoying word, so let's call it just a contender.
>>>>
>>>>What words annoy you? (single words, not phrases)
>
>
>"Healthy" - as in "healthy meal" - The meal is not healthy. It's dead. Use nutricious, delicious, succulent, tasty, etcetera but do not use 'healthy' in this context.

Even I wouldn't complain about that one!
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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