Writer's Block: Are you incentivized?
Apr. 26th, 2010 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42[Error: unknown template qotd]HAAAhaha! Yes. There was a Shakesville post about this recently. I'm omitting words that are commonly misused/misspelled because 1. that's not really what the question was about and 2. we'd be here all day.
Actually I can only think of these two off the top of my head:
1) "it is what it is" - hate it because it's a meaningless tautology
2) "go ahead and" - it's redundant and it makes the speaker sound like they think the listener needs their permission
I also hate how management-types use hyperbolic metaphors waaaaay too much. "putting out fires" "fall on [one's] sword" etc. Like they have to make everything sound dramatic and important.
I have to confess that I have occasionally used both "in the loop" and "on the same page" although they make me cringe a little. It's hard when you're communicating with people who talk like that to avoid picking up their phrases.
Actually I can only think of these two off the top of my head:
1) "it is what it is" - hate it because it's a meaningless tautology
2) "go ahead and" - it's redundant and it makes the speaker sound like they think the listener needs their permission
I also hate how management-types use hyperbolic metaphors waaaaay too much. "putting out fires" "fall on [one's] sword" etc. Like they have to make everything sound dramatic and important.
I have to confess that I have occasionally used both "in the loop" and "on the same page" although they make me cringe a little. It's hard when you're communicating with people who talk like that to avoid picking up their phrases.
