Comments on: A small victory

By: ann dermansky

ann dermansky — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:55:55 +0000

And after “impactful” is no more, maybe we can get red of “substantive,” and after that, “issues.” I have substantive issuses with with the impactful debaasement of language.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:45:52 +0000

Obviously your only option was to climb up there and draw quote marks around “10 items.”

By: George

George — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:04:06 +0000

My personal crusade is against “utilize”… do you mean “use” but hope jazzing it up for your business meeting will make you appear less illiterate (fewer illiterate)?

That and “functionality”. Every time some used that “word” in a meeting at my old job, I stopped the whole process and said, “Could you define that word for me?” Usually they ended up saying they meant “capability”, to which I responded, “Oh, “capability”. Now that’s a word.”

I was a dickhead because I hated my job, what can I say.