Presume you are talking about people referring to events/food/parties etc?
In my workplace it is currently a fashionable way to describe user needs, as in "we need to create some user epics for law enforcement applications". Really irks me - what the buggery is wrong with "use cases" or even "user stories"?!?!?
I'd add to that people (usually in call centres) who go through all sorts of particularly weird grammatical convolutions because they insist on using "yourself" instead of "you".
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I was on a course where the leader spoke to us like that. He also spouted management twaddle like:
"Yourselves have to action the schemes to maximise outcomes going forward"
People who use 'So' at the beginning of every reply to a question.
'So' is usually an adverb used to intensify an adjective or another adverb. It is also a plainer adverb for words like 'therefore' etc.
I don't mind 'so' at the beginning of a sentence - it annoys me so much more when a person being interviewed (usually a teen or 20-something) says something and then goes '...so...' and just stops there.
I was on a course where the leader spoke to us like that. He also spouted management twaddle like:
"Yourselves have to action the schemes to maximise outcomes going forward"
read
"Do this plan to get good results in the future."
At work, I'll take the P out of anybody who starts off with management twaddle. There was somebody giving it all that in a meeting the other day and I just had to reply with "Well next week we'll touch base and with a bit of blue sky thinking, outside the box..."
Awesome, when used to describe something like a bag of crisps.
x 2.
Drives me crazy. I read that Obama is trying to get his team to start using "fabulous" instead of "awesome", as he hates it too.
Eddie Izzard has it perfectly summed up. In a world where a hotdog is described as "awesome", what is left for the astronaut who first sees Mars's horizon.
Astronaut to control: "It's, it's, it's.......AWESOME!"
"simply " when used in instructions.
"Lessons will be learned" trotted out after every calamitous disaster befalling any public body.
"We're working closely with.... " when used by a corporate body on the defensive.
My boss uses the phrase 'It's a learning curve' so often it makes me want to scream. Worse still, I always know when it's coming and can feel myself tense up.
At work, I'll take the P out of anybody who starts off with management twaddle. There was somebody giving it all that in a meeting the other day and I just had to reply with "Well next week we'll touch base and with a bit of blue sky thinking, outside the box..."
Didn't go down too well.
I'll give you another one.
'Think before you speak. Think again. Then think a third time before you say anything.'
Sports Pundit Speak... in particular the sort of verbal diarrhea that dribbles from football pundits mouths - LINK
Management Speak.... this is one I'm guilty of myself, though in my defense I'll say that without addressing managers in their own language they tend not to take much notice.
Americanisms - "Can I get...", "I was like...", "So, we have this..." and any of that topped off with a rising questioning tone (AQI) when making a statement. "So, I was like at the drive-through and stuff and ordered like a Big Mac(?)" .... argh!!! Have you any idea how stupid you sound?
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*shudder*
Presume you are talking about people referring to events/food/parties etc?
In my workplace it is currently a fashionable way to describe user needs, as in "we need to create some user epics for law enforcement applications". Really irks me - what the buggery is wrong with "use cases" or even "user stories"?!?!?
"Yourselves have to action the schemes to maximise outcomes going forward"
read
"Do this plan to get good results in the future."
Some people do not actually understand how much it hurts when people slag you off.
I don't mind 'so' at the beginning of a sentence - it annoys me so much more when a person being interviewed (usually a teen or 20-something) says something and then goes '...so...' and just stops there.
It's used a lot in N.Ireland. I quite like it and use it myself sometimes even though I am aware it is ungrammatical.
Though, paradoxically, it really annoys me when I hear people in some parts of England saying 'we was sat there' instead if 'we were sitting there'
Hubby, hubs, hubster.....just eff off.
Any adult that still calls their parents mummy and daddy.
The word lush used to describe something nice.
At work, I'll take the P out of anybody who starts off with management twaddle. There was somebody giving it all that in a meeting the other day and I just had to reply with "Well next week we'll touch base and with a bit of blue sky thinking, outside the box..."
Didn't go down too well.
x 2.
Drives me crazy. I read that Obama is trying to get his team to start using "fabulous" instead of "awesome", as he hates it too.
Eddie Izzard has it perfectly summed up. In a world where a hotdog is described as "awesome", what is left for the astronaut who first sees Mars's horizon.
Astronaut to control: "It's, it's, it's.......AWESOME!"
Control: "What? Like a hotdog?"
Everything absolutely is NOT awesome.
"Going forward".
Aaagh! I hate that. "In future" and "from now on" are perfectly adequate phrases imo.
I absolutely hate that with a passion .... I want to punch anyone I hear or see saying it >:(
It is simply "An opportunity"
Oh! And everything, travel wise, seems to have now become a "corridor"! >:(
"Lessons will be learned" trotted out after every calamitous disaster befalling any public body.
"We're working closely with.... " when used by a corporate body on the defensive.
Also, any grown adult saying "toasty warm". Shudder.
Can I get?
Anyhoo
Just giving you the heads up (I really detest that!)
I'll give you another one.
'Think before you speak. Think again. Then think a third time before you say anything.'
Management Speak.... this is one I'm guilty of myself, though in my defense I'll say that without addressing managers in their own language they tend not to take much notice.
Americanisms - "Can I get...", "I was like...", "So, we have this..." and any of that topped off with a rising questioning tone (AQI) when making a statement. "So, I was like at the drive-through and stuff and ordered like a Big Mac(?)" .... argh!!! Have you any idea how stupid you sound?
Use of jargon inappropriately.
Sorry with the link, which doesn't come up in blue.