Most irritating buzz-words/phrases

My sister also says, at least once a day...

"Needless to say..."

Really? If it is needless to say it? Why the #^$%#&$!! are you saying it?
 
Shovel Ready - Even some of the upper mgt. types are using this instead of the "is the project ready to go".

"For your convenience" - usually when someone says that, it's for their convenience, not yours.

Bottom line - hmmm... define that term
 
Maverick said:
"We need it by Close of Business"

I saw a game called Board Room Bingo. What you do is make a bunch of bingo cards with buzz words in the boxes instead of numbers. Then you pass one out to everyone attending the meeting. The object of the game is to check off a box when you hear a buzz word that is on your card. The first one to reach bingo then stands up and shouts Bulls**t.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
SCCutler said:
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lmfao....
 
Even the media talkers and writers, people who should know better, are lengthening sentences by saying "what we need is..." or "what we will do now is..." instead of saying "we need..." or "we will...". Such bafflegab leads to stupidity in speech. "What the biggest question here is, "Is this the right thing to do?" Note the double "is."

Emily Carr, a Canadian landscape painter of renown, took up writing and had a tutor who trained her to be brief and succinct. Her books make great reading. No more text than necessary, making anything she wrote fairly intense.

But that requires thought before talk. Rare these days.

Dan
 
Saw a clever slogan on the side of a moving van "We specialize in thinking inside the box"
 
D. All of the above..

and the worst part is I am guilty of more of them than I should admit...
 
SkyHog said:
We were discussing this at work today, and I got a bunch of opinions on words that really irritate other people with the vagueness and buzz-wordiness.

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I glad to see that you are polling all of your team members and determining if there are any synergistic paradigms in annoying messaging.
 
How about the media adding -gate or -istan to anything they don't like?
 
Unprecedented...
...there should be no doubt...

Heard these two on the way home...
 
How about when sales folks or telemarketers say

" This is just a courtesy call"

AHHHH not its not!
 
"have got" or contractions of it; and "the reason why."

"Irregardless" of who "reaches out" for "the bottom line" on the "treadmill" of fractured grammar, those "get" to me. (Go wrap the gifts, Jer; or go to bed.)

HR
 
"On the ground"

You hear it all over the place now tacked on to the end of sentences that describe a place where something is happening.

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it, especially in a group of pilots who actually have a freeking reason to use the phrase occasionally.

Start paying attention to political speak on news programs and you will hear all sorts of people referring to stuff "on the ground" that couldn't be anywhere BUT on the ground. They just tack it on to sound all official and military jargon-y.

When talking about troops arriving, "boots on the ground" and something no longer being in flight FINE. But those examples probably comprise less than 30% of actual use.

Somebody should put a stop to it before my head implodes.
 
Everskyward said:
"Values" especially if preceded by the word "family".
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Nothing wrong with "family values," but when a politician invokes that phrase (on either side), you can bet that they care not one whit about any family other than their own, nor any value other than the scope of their own wealth and power.
 
"I would like to apologize" ... well, ok then - apologize! Never actually apologize, just would like to ...
 
One that I hear all the time "We need to wrap our arms around this one" ........Sheeeesh do we need a group hug or what?

A few more that drive me crazy, Due Diligence......drive on.......and someone that constantly reminds everyone how many years they have been working here or doing a specific job. My typical response is ...."and you think by now you would have figured it out"...it is followed by a stunned silence.......Ahhhh.....I feel better.
 
Wow, using clichés and phrases here is like "walking though a mine field". I'm trying to be "politically correct" and to be sure "not to offend anyone".
 
SCCutler said:
Nothing wrong with "family values," but when a politician invokes that phrase (on either side), you can bet that they care not one whit about any family other than their own, nor any value other than the scope of their own wealth and power.
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strike the bold part and replace with [but themself] and you might have it.
 
It seems exclusive to the railroad world, but at the end of every discussion about a project, as everybody gets ready to leave/get off the <damn> speaker phone, somebody has to say "Here we go!".
GRRRRR:mad2:
 
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