- "going forward" (#1)
- "incentivise" (#4)
- "challenge" (#10)
- "paradigm shifts" (#35)
- "stakeholder" (#36)
- "cascading" (#39)
- "leverage" (#42)
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Labels: Life in the internet age, Words words words
17.6.08
The challenge of problem with office-speak
I'm glad I'm back at my email and reading BBC News today, or I would've missed the BBC News Magazine's "50 office-speak phrases you love to hate". I think most of my pet peeve corporate-speak phrases are on the list, including the vomit-worthy:
Related post: On being plain-spoken
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6 Comments:
For your kind consideration please. Kindly revert as to whether you will be attending the tea session. ;-)
Nearly snorted out juice through my nose reading this. Though the one word that would make me commit murder by pencil is 'revert'.
Yes, the misuse of "revert" MUST be stamped out! I wonder if it's only in the Singapore context that the word gets abused so ...
In my ex-company, the most used phrase that drove me batty all the time was, "so-called". My GM would go, "So we go to Shanghai to promote our so-called programme..."
And another colleague used to say, "whole entire" ALL THE BLOODY TIME!
One of my friends thinks that the abuse of "so-called" is perpetuated in the army. That's where he hears it misused the most often.
Maybe your GM was ex-army? :)
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