What's a buzzword you love to hate?

[Chik]

Thirty years as a trauma surgeon and most of my communication was technical laced with profanity. Four years as a hospital exec and I'm throwing every one of the terms in the Atlantic article around with alacrity and think I sound good doing so. Looks like a little introspection is in order.

Haha! Hey, at least you have some self awareness, which isn't something that can be said of many people.

[rwsaunders]

“Great report Jim, but does it pass the litmus test?” Good grief, do they still do litmus tests?

[SlowPokePete]

mansplain.

SPP

[rwsaunders]

"Our design and engineering team will take a WHOLISTIC APPROACH in addressing your project."

[ides1056]

Answering any question with the first word being "so."

[Chik]

Passionate.

I'll probably say something I'll regret, so I won't say anything.

[NYCfixie]

more shots in arms

[Marvinlungwitz]

The new definition of the word endorse, as often seen in the medical world.

“He endorsed having a bad headache for days”.

It’s worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

[rwsaunders]

Did someone say the world granular?

[NYCfixie]

Did someone say the world granular?

Let me dissect that for you

[marley]

Consultant - like right now on call "special sauce"

*title of my sex tape

[osbk67]

Sometimes while waiting on the phone for HelpDesk I wonder who's job it is to do this critical blue sky thinking, conceptualising new buzzwords then socialising them to see whether they will fly across a wide audience with minlmum pushback.

[bcm119]

A coworker and I did an experiment a few years ago where we started using a word in a new, esoteric way to see if our boss would start using it too. Sure enough, she did. The white collar work world is so ridiculous sometimes. I purposely avoid using as much office jargon as possible, because it's so easy-- just replace the ridiculous phrase with a more common one that means the same thing. Don't be a linguistic lemming.

[j44ke]

The word player. As in, he’s not a player. I heard that said about someone as a criticism and asked “so what does that mean - he has sex with a lot of people at work or he doesn’t charge for sex or...help me out here. What are you really trying to say?”

Wifey and Hubby. Just sounds like something out of the 1980’s swinging scene. Please I don’t even want the unintended innuendo. I guess those aren’t really buzzwords. And probably just my pet peeve too.

[bironi]

Let me be perfectly clear.
It's time to close this thread.

[mnoble485]

Let me be perfectly clear.
It's time to close this thread.

Is this push back for thruputting this into another silo?

Mike

[Sino]

People saying legitimately when they mean literally.

[WFSTEKL]

These two words may have already been mentioned in this discussion: unpack, optics. I sat through a meeting last week, and a speaker uttered both words in the same breath. It almost caused me to fart in public.

[thollandpe]

These two words may have already been mentioned in this discussion: unpack, optics. I sat through a meeting last week, and a speaker uttered both words in the same breath. It almost caused me to fart in public.

What's the olfactory equivalent of optics? Wondering if that post passes the sniff test.

[mjbabcock]

These two words may have already been mentioned in this discussion: unpack, optics. I sat through a meeting last week, and a speaker uttered both words in the same breath. It almost caused me to fart in public.

Oh my...the options that opened up. Refraction...reflection...lens...power of said lenses...convex/concave, wavelengths refracting at angles due to refraction indexes.

I’ll give you a bottle of NFS if you can incorporate double-slit refraction into a conversation as a metaphor for something inane. Maybe the dark spots could be where you’re “blind”. Oh my, that’s a rich batch of bullshit to mine right there. I mean, E=mc^2 with e being 3.0x18^8m/s. You could even troll folks with metric/standard conversions.

I can see it now...”oh! I get it now, it was unclear cause you were working in non-visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic w and using feet/second, but once I converted your metaphor to metric and applied the appropriate sensors, it all made sense. Should we stop for lunch now?”