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Organization or any other word that's lost its S along the way.


Unless you're referring to America or some other country, lay off.


I hate the way it sounds, the word just fades out as you speak it.


My email at work keeps auto-correcting words to Z, no matter how many times I try to change the settings.

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> Keef and JJF...sorry guys but you're showing your

> age now. Keep up, its all bare sick y'know.:))



Oi, I'm not that old :( Seriously, most of the lingo was much the same when I was at school (only 12 years ago), but this bare thing is unacceptable!


Sick (meaning good) on the other hand is something that my aussie friends say, and I quite like it.

oh no, I sometimes catch myself saying "can I get" and am immediately filled with self-loathing and sideshow bob shivers. it's so insidious


"meet with". no one in my company ever meets anyone anymore. they must meet WITH them. I get cross.


amongst - "among" surely?


utilise - sweet baby jesus, what's wrong with "use"?

yeah and I'm only 29. When I was at school and we saw a good looking boy, the girls would say "Ra, that boy is kris" and the boys would say "That girl is det". And they didn't say 'bare' they'd say 'nuff' when referring to lots of things!


Anyway, they need to stop all this jargon. Now!

Organization or any other word that's lost its S along the way.


Actually using -ization there is correct. Both all -ise and all -ize are accepted usage here and in the USA, respectively, but if you look in the OED it's mixed -ize/-ise depending on whether the word in question has a Greek or Latin root.

Ant Wrote:

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>

> Actually using -ization there is correct. Both all

> -ise and all -ize are accepted usage here and in

> the USA, respectively, but if you look in the OED

> it's mixed -ize/-ise depending on whether the word

> in question has a Greek or Latin root.



I am curious about this. Somewhere along the line, words like standardise, organise sprout a Z. For me, it's about the pronunciation. I don't want to go round buzzing Zs everywhere.

Aagh, KPIs - I'm in KPI hell at the moment - with brand synergies nowhere to be seen but by golly we're talking them up in full bullshit mode.


Did anyone else read the piece in the Guardian Work supplement on Saturday about the need to feel fulfilled at work being a modern malaise? Brand synergy KPIs are my motherf*cking malaise. I think I may have had one can of coke too many

Today I have been guilty of almost everything between this and my last post. I knew it was wrong but everyone else was doing it and I just wanted to fit in...


Especially - HonaloochieB, if there was an emoticon for remorse I'd put it here - I sometimes deliberately use 'feel', 'think' and 'see' interchangeably in order to appeal to a variety of processing systems (see! that's how it happens!). It's the result of an NLP course I did a few years ago and now I can't stop myself.


In my defence, I don't use 'solutions' (does Private Eye still do Solutions Corner) or '-ize', which is always wrong unless you're American.

Ms B Wrote:

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> Today I have been guilty of almost everything

> between this and my last post. I knew it was wrong

> but everyone else was doing it and I just wanted

> to fit in...

>

> Especially - HonaloochieB, if there was an

> emoticon for remorse I'd put it here -


Well done for resisting the impulse Ms B emoticons are Satan's shorthand


I sometimes deliberately use 'feel', 'think' and 'see'

> interchangeably in order to appeal to a variety of

> processing systems (see! that's how it happens!).

> It's the result of an NLP course I did a few years

> ago and now I can't stop myself.

>

> In my defence, I don't use 'solutions' (does

> Private Eye still do Solutions Corner) or '-ize',

> which is always wrong unless you're American.


Yes it does, I feel it it's an important part of the magazine.

"I hope you don't mind me saying....."

"Don't take this the wrong way...."


shorthand - I'm going to be really offensive and rude now, but I expect you to listen and smile.


So I smile sweetly.... "And what's the right way for me to take that comment"; or "Actually I do mind you saying that."


Cue stony silence.

Bellenden Belle Wrote:

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> "I hope you don't mind me saying....."

> "Don't take this the wrong way...."

>

> shorthand - I'm going to be really offensive and

> rude now, but I expect you to listen and smile.

>

> So I smile sweetly.... "And what's the right way

> for me to take that comment"; or "Actually I do

> mind you saying that."

>

I'll use these or variations of them if you don't mind BB. Good responses, not a charm offensive, but more offensive charm in that you've not said anything much but have invited a response which is either going to have to compound the offensiveness or retreat.

Good work.

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