Improper use of words

**oldman** · 07-22-2011, 01:19 PM

Some of these posters have a long road to hoe, when it comes to understanding pirateless sarcasticism.

**Naughtius** · 07-22-2011, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by mred

My two favorites:

"pre-madonna" (for prima donna)

"dominate" used as an adjective, like "ISU's defense was absolutely dominate in that game." It's dominant. "Dominate" is a verb and is always pronounced with a long A.

The latest one at work is to use "solution" as a verb. "We need to solution around this problem." Um, we already had a perfectly good choice with the word solve.

**CloneIce** · 07-22-2011, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Cyballz

for all intensive purposes, you're just making people that make these errors escape goats. It's really just a mute point though.

Wow, I'm amazed at how many people didn't understand the intent of this post...

**ruxCYtable** · 07-22-2011, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Naughtius

The latest one at work is to use "solution" as a verb. "We need to solution around this problem." Um, we already had a perfectly good choice with the word solve.

Oh man, you're opening a huge can of worms if we're going to get into "ridiculous management speak" now! I could go all day on that!

**stateofmind** · 07-22-2011, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by ruxCYtable

Oh man, you're opening a huge can of worms if we're going to get into "ridiculous management speak" now! I could go all day on that!

"Let me ping Austin for his input."

**ruxCYtable** · 07-22-2011, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by stateofmind

"Let me ping Austin for his input."

"We need to get our arms around that."

Remember when "the numbers" suddenly became "metrics"?

And it is so funny that they ALL adopt these new words and phrases immediately so they can fit in with all the rest.

Managers are funny little people. Perhaps funny is not the right word. Sad is more like it.

**Bipolarcy** · 07-22-2011, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Cyclones_R_GR8

Isn't it "for all intents and purposes" and not "for all intensive purposes" ?

There's one in every crowd, isn't there? Yet he lets the other obvious errors slide.

**Bipolarcy** · 07-22-2011, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by jaretac

People need to give it up. These are message boards and not thesis's. The people who jump on to threads like this are just looking to make themselves feel better. If you feel the need to notify someone of their bad grammar, than why not let them know in a rep and not call them out in a thread?

So because it's a message board we should just be as dumb as we want? I don't buy it. That reminds me of the Tom Cruise movie Losin' It, where the Jackie Earle Haley character says "we're going to be as rude as we want, we're going to be as crude as we want." what are you, a teenage boy looking to lose his virginity?

**CykoAGR** · 07-22-2011, 03:35 PM

This thread rocks.

It does empasize the need for a sarcasm FONT so we dont have to mess with those silly little jimlads

**CykoAGR** · 07-22-2011, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by ruxCYtable

"We need to get our arms around that."

Remember when "the numbers" suddenly became "metrics"?

And it is so funny that they ALL adopt these new words and phrases immediately so they can fit in with all the rest.

Managers are funny little people. Perhaps funny is not the right word. Sad is more like it.

This is so true.

**Cy4Patriots** · 07-22-2011, 11:03 PM

I have no problem when people correct me, it's when they only do it to get away from the point of the thread. They have no good answer to respond, so they choose to find a small spelling error. For anyone to call out a poster about grammar on a message board seems ridiculous to me.

**drednot57** · 07-22-2011, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by CYCLNST8

lol! i like this thread to. time 4 desert!

Which do you prefer, Sahara, Kalahari, Arabian, or Gobi?

**cdekovic** · 07-23-2011, 07:58 AM

I am looking to make sense of this post. Where is it at?

**Clone83** · 07-23-2011, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by Cy4Patriots

I have no problem when people correct me, it's when they only do it to get away from the point of the thread. They have no good answer to respond, so they choose to find a small spelling error. For anyone to call out a poster about grammar on a message board seems ridiculous to me.

Well said, Cy4Patriots. Not rediculous at all.

**cytheguy** · 07-23-2011, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by ruxCYtable

"We need to get our arms around that."

Remember when "the numbers" suddenly became "metrics"?

And it is so funny that they ALL adopt these new words and phrases immediately so they can fit in with all the rest.

Managers are funny little people. Perhaps funny is not the right word. Sad is more like it.

The corporate world is full of followers. Before going out on my own, I worked four years at Wells Fargo and three at EMC. What I noticed is, the middle management types were always the ones inventing new phrases or trying to sound smarter than they actually were by using 25 cent words when penny words would do just fine.