Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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"In terms of"This one really makes me cringe. Please, say what you mean clearly, stating the object of the sentence near the start rather than starting with what you might be doing and tacking on, "In terms of" on the end. Even worse is when it's totally unnecessary.
"Crisps can be expensive in terms of money"
"The project is going to overrun in terms of time"
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 18:41, 2 replies)
Oh, that brings me back!
I had a biology teacher who said that all the time. We had a tally in our exercise books for her. The record was 36 in one lesson, as I recall.
Also, she was very fond of "in the context of". Very rarely used in a way that makes sense!
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 0:55, closed)
I recently had this gem fired at me, via emither:"In terms of workload, what work have you got lined up going forward?" eh?!
Where as I would say: have you got any work on?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:20, closed)
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