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Utilize This Solution

I throw up in my mouth a little when I come across "utilize". I also eschew using "solution" to mean "answer".

What else, colleagues?

Er, maybe we've done this too many times before. Hazelnut. Panties.

  • By tgl at 2008 Jul 28 - 6:31pm
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Not really extra or unecessary words as are other rsn posters in this thread, but lately I have not been feeling the recent marketing euphemism "Gas Sipping". Makes me want to end my TV in a fit of rage.

  • By MF DU at 2008 Jul 29 - 8:48am
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SHUT UP!!!!

  • By G lib at 2008 Jul 29 - 10:52am
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'Actually' is my recent biggie.

  • By dyedon8 at 2008 Jul 28 - 6:34pm
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Really, really?

  • By tgl at 2008 Jul 28 - 6:41pm
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oh, shit...i've been trying to break that habit.

so far my efforts are made of fail. :P

  • By loxocele at 2008 Jul 29 - 12:37am
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"issues" instead of "problems"

  • By mahatma chani at 2008 Jul 29 - 7:08am
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Seriously. Um, yeah.

  • By Miriam at 2008 Jul 29 - 8:15am
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"Discovery Tool" rather than "Library Catalog"

  • By G lib at 2008 Jul 29 - 11:00am
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"Knowledge Base" rather than "FAQ"

  • By TheFullCleveland at 2008 Jul 29 - 11:13am
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Dongle. Horrible, horrible word!

  • By TheFullCleveland at 2008 Jul 29 - 11:17am
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Wow. No argument there. I didn't even know that that was a word - but I already hate it.

  • By MF DU at 2008 Jul 29 - 11:41am
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Never heard of it. What is it?

  • By G lib at 2008 Jul 30 - 5:24am
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I hear the word at least 10 times a day. Fortunately, I don't have to say it all that often.

  • By TheFullCleveland at 2008 Jul 30 - 5:30am
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So, with apologies to George Lucas, is a 'dongle' the glorified restraining bolt that was placed on R2D2 to restrict his access to unauthorized users and keep him close by?

  • By MF DU at 2008 Jul 30 - 6:41am
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I'm so sorry, TFC. Hearing that word regularly would make me want to kill.

"I want to Kill"
"KILL"
"KILL!!!"

(reference, anyone, besides chippy?)

  • By G lib at 2008 Jul 30 - 7:45am
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"How do you young people say it, 'chillax'"? I heard this on TV or in a movie, but I never heard anyone ACTUALLY use this non-word.

  • By jbcardinale at 2008 Jul 29 - 12:16pm
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NPR had a whole show on tonight about new business terms. while i kind of liked "multi-slacking," the rest of them were all abominably lame: things like "frazzing" (frantic, ineffective multi-tasking), and "on- and off-ramps for women" (because "sometimes they get stuck in traffic" trying to reenter the workforce after taking time off to have children).

ugh.

  • By loxocele at 2008 Jul 29 - 5:09pm
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I'm not into 'paradigms'.

  • By ConorClockwise at 2008 Jul 30 - 11:48am
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10 years ago I liked 'paradigm', but In 2008, I have to agree with you.

  • By MF DU at 2008 Jul 31 - 6:34am
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Your p_______ shifted.

  • By tgl at 2008 Jul 31 - 1:11pm
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...

  • By TheFullCleveland at 2008 Jul 31 - 7:01pm
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From my ma, and I have to agree: 'Orientate'.

  • By ConorClockwise at 2008 Aug 1 - 2:50pm
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'Leverage' as a verb.

'sync' as a verb is okay with me, but not if you say "sunk" for the past tense.

  • By tommy at 2008 Aug 4 - 6:21am
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An old boss of mine was an adherent of this verbal strayegy. Blech.

  • By MF DU at 2008 Aug 4 - 7:44am
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