Most loathed word of the day!

Mordecai

Verbalise - everything that's wrong with the world today can be blamed on people who use this "word."

boidey

people that use use the term feedback incorrectly should be beaten until they apoligise

stevedublin

apologise

boidey

thanks for the feedback steve

dSTAR

The word BUT!

A small but insidious word.

Such as "I understand you are frustrated BUT you need to see things from my perspective."

As a result everything that has been said prior to that has been negated or trivialised.

pickarooney

plimsoll

ixoy

More of a phrase - "going forward" as in "Going forward, we see the downsizing of your department as a positive development for us."

I'm also developing an increasing hatred for the word "like". It's redundant, like, most of the time, like and adds like, nothing to the sentence, like. Grrr.

ecksor

Haha, pooka used to have a regular rant about that when I worked with him.

"Going forward? They mean 'from now on'. Why don't they just say 'from now on' ?"

Beruthiel

ecksor wrote:

"Going forward? They mean 'from now on'. Why don't they just say 'from now on' ?"

It’s a bit like using the words “acceptable losses” – eg. the american army in iraq, instead of saying we killed loads of people by accident, they use the term “acceptable losses” – it’s tidy and there’s no mention of an actual dead body at the end of it

ecksor

When I was a general in the US army during the first gulf war we called that "collateral damage".