I’m over so many people being referred to as a “GOAT”. The “greatest of all time” implies one. There aren’t 50 GOAT’s in every sport. It’s like Highlander…there can be only one.
@luckranger71 That’s exactly who I was thinking about. Any of us who watched him in his heyday know what we saw, and we’ve never seen anything like it since.
I used to know some people who worked for the government science agency that became privatised under the name QinetiQ.
They said it took ages for reporters and other outsiders to learn to pronounce it. Staff members themselves had an uphilll battle especially in telephone calls, teaching their banks, insurers and so on both the pronounciation and the spelling of their employers' name.
("No, not 'Quinetik' or 'Quintek' or 'Quine-tek'... There is no 'u' in the word. It is pronounced as 'kinetic' - one of the states of energy!" Though I doubt many money-traders would understand that explanation.)
More, they told me, it paid the "branding consultants" to create a "corporate font" for all formal word-processed, internal reports etc. I think that was another common 1990s company fad, alongside "mission statements"*. It was very expensive, and identical to most of the standard, bland sans-serif fonts already on everyone's computers (including in text-messages like this). And just as hard on the eye in full-page texts..
So much for "consultants".... And directors behaving like teenagers seeing new brands of plimsolls.
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*Mission Statement" . Bland, boastful, little meaning, no value. Probably written by Branding Consultants.
Its modern version is that quoted by frustrated investigative journalists, when saying, "The Department was 'unavailable for comment' but sent a statement that......." The statement of course, failing to answer the question.
No, let's not 🙄 I spent hours kneeling on the suitcase trying to fit everything in, and I supplied you with a neatly typed manifest clearly explaining where the socks are. If it all spills out again in the airport you are on your own 😔
Yes, I hear it mostly on YouTube. You can use the words kill, murder, murdered, and any of the like, but the video that uses that language will be demonitized, and the YouTube hosts don't want to lose money when YouTube is there only source of income.
Every time a queer person says something publicly, people call them brave. And maybe it comes from a place of good intention, but it's gotten old, and sounds condescending. Not unlike the "speak your truth" cliché mentioned elsewhere in this same post.
It's not brave or courageous to be sick and tired of hiding who you are, or holding back your opinion of people who vote for the politicians who want to erase you. It just means you're sick and tired of holding back. What really takes mental and emotional strength is not saying it for years at a time.
Team-work can cover a huge range of activities, professional or amateur, and many do not need uniforms or a field.
There are many types of employment or activities like competition sports that do use them, but the phrase refers to the way a group works together, not what it wears nor what it does and where.
So I don't regard that phrase as necessarily management or sports jargon.
However, I have noticed a curious fashion in supermarkets for the staff to be called "colleagues".
I cringe when people don't speak their syllables correctly, like when they say, " butt-on" instead of, " but-ton". Or, " mount- ain", instead of , " moun-tain".
Or, if brevity is not the goal, at least make it an actual sentence with a verb: "here's the gist of it." Or even use the original, "To make a long story short...."
@CrazyMusicLover You are not. The thing about corpospeak is that it's meant to fill up time with meaningless phrases. For instance, instead of saying, "F*** you, that's not happening", they say, "Well, that's one approach. Tell you what, we will take that under advisement, but for now, let's table the conversation and we'll circle back to it later."
@bijouxbroussard I researched the original meaning of the word because of those people, or I guess you could say in spite of them, and I was not the slightest bit surprised to see it's another expression white people stole from the black community and twisted. What's unfortunate is how few people are willing to put in the legwork to find out what it's really supposed to mean, and just use it as a label for anything that makes them cry.
While we're at it, let's fill in that word with any of the others. Sexist, homophobic, or just plain bigoted. You absolutely do mean to sound that way, and you're just making excuses.
There are a few types of pictures that get posted over and over again online (like a picture of an old cassette tape and a pencil) with the caption "if you know you know". (Cassette tapes often failed to rewind properly and people used a pencil point to rotate them back into position.)
I feel like responding, "If you don't know by now, you haven't been paying attention!"
