Fashionable words

[steveisfrowning]

At work we get this all the time, but the one that is really bugging me at the moment is one that sprung into common parlance as an outcome (BTW THAT's another one!!!!) of the London riots. Every statement, at the moment, that is associated with virtually any wrongdoing of any kind manages to involve the word 'criminality'. Some Lord was on r5 yesterday talking about press complaints and Victoria Derbyshire was pressing (feebly, as usual) on some point or other, and the fella just had to use the word.

STOP IT, STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

[VO2Max]

It's more economical than saying criminal behaviour?

[symon]

Disingenuous.

Why not say they didn't tell the truth?

[steveisfrowning]

Don't get me wrong - I admire a varied and interesting vocabulary. What I can't stand is 'normalisation' of profoundly uninteresting or stupid words.

Like 'normalisation'.

[Anjenha]

My BIL has a thing about putting 'ington' on the end of things

Eg. 'what's wrong with the car, Johnny?'
'it's rustington'
'how was dinner Johnny?'
'mmm was tastington'

Annoying

[zulu ferret]

Confirm, absolutillyness'.: Down at my low level of comprehension I'm lost for words. :

Zeitgeist.

Originally Posted by steveisfrowning

Like 'normalisation'.

You mean normalization,* shurely?








*Said with a transatlantic twang.

[1of1]

I think the one thing uttered from folks mouths that makes me see red is 'O M G' - not a 'word' but it drives me insane

[Anjenha]

Omg is fine in writing

But in real life you can't say OMG you have to say Oh My God - I even read Oh My God... I don't say OMG in my head when I see it

Other wise you sound like a male hen

And those people who say lol instead of actually laughing... It's fine in text on screen etc, but you don't SAY lol (pronounced to rhyme with doll)

[ACAPULCO AL]

robust

[GJ]

Absolutely

[steveisfrowning]

Originally Posted by acapulco al

robust

+1

[ACAPULCO AL]

i have american customers who like to 'reach out to' me. or - as a normal human being might put it - 'speak' to me

[GJ]

But they are just verbalizing

[Anjenha]

Business speak

Now THAT is annoying.

Anyone ever played Bullsh*t bingo in a meeting? (also known as buzzword bingo) Wiki has an example, but the words there are pap.

Basically your bingo card has lots of buzzwords/phrases instead of numbers, and you tick them off as you go much more exciting than 'a meeting, about a meeting, about something which you probably won't end up doing anyway'

[stuartmunn]

******** BINGO ... I work for a major Oil & Gas company and its impossible to have a conversation with anyone in the US (in particular) without them using some ... examples that I have overheard used seriously are:

"We need to re-orientate our ambition levels for this project"

"when the rubber hits the road"

"low hanging fruit"

"pushing the envelope"

"blue sky thinking" (impossible if you work in Aberdeen)

"Thank you for your synergistic approach to the challanges in this project"

... lots more of this **** is available...

[cooper1997]

Originally Posted by Anjenha

My BIL has a thing about putting 'ington' on the end of things

Eg. 'what's wrong with the car, Johnny?'
'it's rustington'
'how was dinner Johnny?'
'mmm was tastington'

Annoying

He just sounds stupid! At least criminality is a word!

[Clovis]

Just reading this has made me start grinding my teeth.

I had never hear of the "...ington" thing. I can imagine that would become very annoying very quickly.

Yesterday I actually congratulated someone at work for not using the "Low hanging fruit" phrase when the opportunity arose.

[symon]

Originally Posted by stuartmunn

******** BINGO ... I work for a major Oil & Gas company and its impossible to have a conversation with anyone in the US (in particular) without them using some ... examples that I have overheard used seriously are:

"We need to re-orientate our ambition levels for this project"

"when the rubber hits the road"

"low hanging fruit"

"pushing the envelope"

"blue sky thinking" (impossible if you work in Aberdeen)

"Thank you for your synergistic approach to the challanges in this project"

... lots more of this **** is available...

"Going Forwards" really annoys me.

[Annabella]

"Operationalise going forward"
It's just been used for the third time in our team call today.

[LadyBug]

I work for an Australian company and was asked if I was "across that". Er no, but I understand it perfectly, thanks......

[VO2Max]

Interestingly (or not, as the case may be ), being across something is an old telephone engineer's phrase which goes back many decades. With the road up and a bunch of wires in your hand, you would don your headphones ('cans') with croc clips on the end, apply the croc clips to a pair (of wires) and listen across the pair to see if someone's line was working.

These days I believe they call it phone hacking .

The TV/Radio industry (my neck of the woods) uses many of the same principles/techniques and indeed equipment to move signals around (within buildings or across the country and beyond). It's a phrase we use a lot at work.

I bet ZF used exactly the same terminology when using field telephones in the Army?

[Starkers]

Originally Posted by stuartmunn

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"blue sky thinking" (impossible if you work in Aberdeen)

"Thank you for your synergistic approach to the challanges in this project" Shudder.

...

I had an e-mail from someone which said "going forwards please namesurname@hotmail.com" Why couldn't she just say "from now on"?

[Trouty]

I had a git wanting to come in and "play head tennis" with me a couple of years back - needless to say he never got to darken my doorstep!