Interoperability

[piskieinboots]

I know it's a word - but, well really...!!

I'm proof-reading a PR press-release and I struggled to get past that word. Got me thinking, which of the 'new terms' do you struggle with.... blue sky thinking is one that really churns my insides up ....yuk

[Headfry]

Dynamic team.....hate it
you're a star.......hate it even more

thinking about it, I don't like any of the sayings....why do we use them anyway?
Is it just so that the person thinks he/she is being clever and knows the up to date phrases to impress!
Why not use one clever English word instead of a silly playground sentence!
ok, ok, I'm getting off the soap box
who's next please.....?

[FionaH]

emotional intelligence - kept coming up on a business course, never did work out what they meant

[shirlthegirl43]

Madmax (currently filling out an application form and strangely enough using interoperability!!) says the word that he can't cope with is synergy!

For me it is any of these new-fangled phrases - thank goodness I don't work beyond helping my dad to send emails, I think I would go potty if I had to attend a manager's meeting

[piskieinboots]

cascade training

if you have seen Jamie Oliver's MOF programme you will know to what it refers - apparently the military uses the term so SD tells me

[Flummery]

I'm afraid the use of 'absolutely' when 'yes' is meant seems to be to be rather sesquipedalian.


Cor, get 'er!

[Capsid]

"Basically" and the ever increasing use of "It's kinda like...sort of" without saying what it is like.

[MaureenHall]

I'm afraid the use of 'absolutely' when 'yes' is meant seems to be to be rather sesquipedalian.


Cor, get 'er!

What?

she's just a clever clogs!! Absolutely

[Stacey Steve]

"Thinking outside the box" is one that gets me going at work.

However, just to get some of my customers going, I often say on the phone, "How can I enhance your order experience today?"

Flummery, why are you afraid though?

[willowstar]

'at the end of the day...'

far too overused though it is dropping off a bit now from last year.

[di]

I used to work with adults with learning disabilities & the constantly updated "P.C"terms we were supposed to constantly keep up with bugged me!!Worst was how we were to refer to them!!Not People,but service users & then clients & a few meetings later customers!!People weren't deaf but hearing impaired,none of them couldn't speak but instead had verbal communication difficulties!!The list goes on!!Don't get me wrong I'm relieved that we've ditched some of the totally derogatory terms(invalid springs to mind!)but it did seem often you were more worried about using the correct terminology as opposed to getting on with your job!

[HeyWayne]

I heard on the radio yesterday I think that there is a council somewhere that is banning or reverting back to "plain English". Lollipop ladies will be called as such, instead of crossing patrol surpervisers (or whatever it is).

Hoorah I say.

I hate management speak - always puts me in mind of David Brent.

[BrideXIII]

'closure'
drives me nuts, why do we need to 'get closure' on anything and everything?

[piskieinboots]

oh gawd yes to closure!!

My very liberal, pink and fluffy PC'd up the ying yang pal wants closure from her current BF who has called an end to their relationship - I said 'hun, you are dumped and no matter what he/you closes you are still dumped'.

I'm thinking of becoming a counsellor - I would do well don't ya think

[SarzWix]

I'm afraid the use of 'absolutely' when 'yes' is meant seems to be to be rather sesquipedalian.


Cor, get 'er!

The literal translation of this (from Latin) is 'a foot and a half long' - sesqui = 1½ ped = foot

I think politicians are the worst offenders for using phrases which make no sense to the ordinary person, in an attempt to confuse/divert from the real answers. In other words, they don't have an answer!