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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    axisus said:
    Just received an email from the Senior Strategic Communications Manager at work:

    We have just published a 10 point listicle ...
    Use humour against the sender. Write an acknowledgement e-mail. Highlight the offending verbal contraction. Politely assert that you decline to li(ck tes)ticle.
    Be seeing you.
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    axisus said:
    Just received an email from the Senior Strategic Communications Manager at work:

    We have just published a 10 point listicle ...


    WTF!?!?! 

    It's probably years old, I have been thankfully spared of its existence up until now. It is the most annoying word since I first saw Webinar. It's frikkin offensive! 

    I'll shut up now


    Not as offensive (and meaningless) as leverage being used as a verb.
    Using Revert, where they meant Reply - really grinds my grammar nazi gears !
    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

    Feedback
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  • ReverendReverend Frets: 4974
    Going forward we will need to drill down and a do a piece of work around this. 
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    axisus said:
    the Senior Strategic Communications Manager
    Great. A chief of communications who cannot use English correctly. Pure Dilbert.

    Er, does this manager resemble a small white dog or an evil, red cat?
    Be seeing you.
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  • VeganicVeganic Frets: 673
    Brize said:
    Veganic said:

    Webinar is ok too. It's a seminar on the web.  As long as we have seminars not on the web it's a useful word.  Almost as good as world-wide-wecture.

    Webinar is a clumsy, malformed word that is jarring to read and unpleasant to pronounce. The reason, I think, that it sounds so absurd is that it lacks any semantic integrity.

    The noun 'seminar' is derived from seminary, which is in turn derived from the Latin 'seminarian', meaning breeding ground or plant nursery. These words all share their etymology with 'seed' and have to do with the dissemination and development of ideas.

    The problem is that all of the meaning is loaded in the root of the word, in the 'sem' that has, in the case of webinar, been thoughtlessly excised. Without that referent, the word is meaningless; it's a linguistic cut and shut with a very conspicuous join.

    I bet you say that about all the words.
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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 23964
    Deskfast.

    Breakfast that you eat at your desk.


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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4902
    Ask him if he's taking the pissticle.

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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31368
    Kebabkid said:
    Is Twunt still ok?
    Well he's still president, if that's what you mean. 
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12314
    Testiculation. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. 
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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9552
    boogieman said:
    Testiculation. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. 
    Genius!
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  • LuttiSLuttiS Frets: 2243
    Deskfast.

    Breakfast that you eat at your desk.


    Surely that should mean you don't eat at your desk?  :)
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30273
    As if there aren't enough bloody words around. Have you seen the size of the Oxford English Dictionary?
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30273
    boogieman said:
    Testiculation. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. 
    I think that was first coined for Adam Hart-Davis.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    Sassafras said:
    boogieman said:
    Testiculation. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. 
    I think that was first coined for Adam Hart-Davis.
    It was quite common in Germany between 1933 and 1945. 
    Be seeing you.
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 26753
    Deskfast.

    Breakfast that you eat at your desk.


    I'm a bigger fan of Deskwich and eating "Al Desko"

    I mean I'm a fan of the words, not the action. 
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    Sassafras said:
    boogieman said:
    Testiculation. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. 
    I think that was first coined for Adam Hart-Davis.

    I saw him on Pointless Celebrities the other day.  He had to sit on a stool the whole time.

    All that cycling didn't do him much good, did it?

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  • axisus said:
    Just received an email from the Senior Strategic Communications Manager at work:

    We have just published a 10 point listicle ...


    WTF!?!?! 

    It's probably years old, I have been thankfully spared of its existence up until now. It is the most annoying word since I first saw Webinar. It's frikkin offensive! 

    I'll shut up now


    Not as offensive (and meaningless) as leverage being used as a verb.
    Not as leverage as when its used as an adverb. 
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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 23964
    Deskfast.

    Breakfast that you eat at your desk.


    I'm a bigger fan of Deskwich and eating "Al Desko"

    I mean I'm a fan of the words, not the action. 
    I wasn't aware of those!

    Those are fantastically awful!
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  • BigMonkaBigMonka Frets: 1763
    Perdix said:
    Listicle (noun) a portmanteau word from list, to lean to one side and testicle, male genitalia. Where one testicle hangs lower than the other. Look at the listicle on those!
    I know it's a thread about horrible words, but I love the word portmanteau - it's soooo nice to say.
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  • menamestommenamestom Frets: 4641

    People at work keep pulling me up for saying ‘It wasn’t even on my radar’

    I thought that was acceptable speak?

    I dunno, perhaps I’m just not cut out for a career in air traffic control  :s
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