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    Disrupt, meaning reclassifying employees as contractors, so you can transfer capital equipment costs to them.
    Productivity improvement, meaning paying for 40 hours of work, while expecting 55 hours.

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    "Optics" used in place of appearances.
    "Methodology" when method will suffice.
    "Anxious" when eager is the appropriate word.

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    Will second the comment about "silo"; not just for farmers anymore - it has been 'repurposed' these days. (Guess that's another one there.)

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    Is it a buzzword when you add a syllable to preventive to make preventative, or just bad form?
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    And let's not forget the phrase, "Having said that,..."

    Yeah I know what you just said.

    Don't get me started.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thollandpe View Post
    Beat me to it. Is that synchronicity?
    Perhaps.
    Jung coined the term to define phenomena that are linked by meaning, as opposed to cause-and-effect. Remember the Police songs?
    Outside of this, I have no idea what it refers to. And neither does anyone else.

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    Album reviews that use the word “sonically”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by monadnocky View Post
    Perhaps.
    Jung coined the term to define phenomena that are linked by meaning, as opposed to cause-and-effect. Remember the Police songs?
    Outside of this, I have no idea what it refers to. And neither does anyone else.
    It is what it is.
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    I am a little upset I overlooked this. Maybe it’s because no-one diarised a reminder for me.

    I can’t tell you what that does to my blood pressure!
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    "Tell how I should think about that" or one of its derivatives.

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    One I like:

    I said to her I said Jamie, you are not going out with that man.

    I hear the double “said” structure a lot in NYC. It often precedes a particularly ripe piece of gossip and/or moment in a story. So if you are standing and swaying on the subway, and you hear this preamble, you might listen closer. Hilarious stuff often follows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j44ke View Post
    One I like:

    I said to her I said Jamie, you are not going out with that man.

    I hear the double “said” structure a lot in NYC. <cut>
    “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”

    Uh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by megapope View Post
    before it bounced back recently one bought a single or album to play on a record player or a turntable, now you buy a vinyl to play on your vinyl player.
    I have no beef with the folks referring to the playable media as "vinyl" but if I ever heard someone refer to their turntable as a "vinyl player" I think I'd punch them in the neck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brc View Post
    Album reviews that use the word “sonically”.
    Really? I think an album review that doesn't address how the product actually sounds -- as a separate component from the music and its meaning [sic] -- is doing a disservice to the potential listener.

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    deconstruct

    I'll admit that my annoyance with this one has more to do with my old field (lit crit) in which it originated, but then again that same field is as overburdened with jargon as any out there. wordsmiths gone wild

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    Quote Originally Posted by giordana93 View Post
    deconstruct

    I'll admit that my annoyance with this one has more to do with my old field (lit crit) in which it originated, but then again that same field is as overburdened with jargon as any out there. wordsmiths gone wild
    Haha! I flirted with semiotics one semester, but it felt like I was standing in the middle of a thick bong smoke, too much even for me. I thought it made Sartre appear sober.

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    "Impact" and "Impactful". I am all confused in this meeting. I can't tell if we're talking about teeth, bowels or what.

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    utilize

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    Quote Originally Posted by defspace View Post
    utilize
    Clinical psychology graduate students love to use this word in their writing. I drop the hammer whenever I see it.

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