Posted on 11/07/2008 12:52:42 PM PST by redrunner
“team player”
#1 most irritating (and overused)....Win-Win. Or Win-Win-Win.
#2. Out of the box.
My two most hated words: ‘fairness’ and ‘diversity’
“Quite frankly...”
I agree that many of the above phrases, but “you need to” tops the irritant list for me. It drives me nuts when, instead of “have to”, “must”, “should”, “ought”, or whatever it is they really mean, people use the imprecise and bossy-sounding “need to” in a misguided attempt to give more weight and authority to their words. As in, “You need to come with me, Sir”. Why not just say “Please come with me, Sir.”? Not only more courteous and professional-sounding, but it has the incidental advantage of being precisely what is meant.
See now, you shouldn’t have got me going...
Search on ‘compiles’ as a word in the Title. That’s the best kind of search I’ve found.
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
I have noticed an interesting affectation, especially among academics. They begin their sentences with the word So.
Please explain your project.
So my project involves.........
I was listening to Science Friday on People’s radio and it was so many of the guests do it I had to laugh.
“These types of things....”
At his juncture, at this particular point in time...
I, for one, think this list has jumped the shark.
State of the art.
What about: “on the same page”!!!
Employees are our most important asset!
I searched Oxford... actually I just did it again and came up empty again... I actually hate to be the duplicate thread and try to avoid it.. anywho... thanks “My FRiend” (I couldn’t resist...)
My pet peeve is when these so called political experts begin their sentences with “The fact of the matter is—”.
My two most hated words: ‘fairness’ and ‘diversity’
Great job, Bob.
(note the comma)
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