The thing about language is...
..it's language, a means of communication, not a fucking exercise in technical perfection. There is no single correct usage, if you find yourself constantly pointing out how other people are "getting it wrong", you're the cunt not them. Do you know what I mean?

Anyway, to the QotW.

I used to work for a US company, which meant lucky me got to hear all the buzzwords before they became common parlance in the UK. I was leveraging my ying yang, running it up flag poles and picking my low hanging fruit for a quick win when I was barely out of short trousers. They way to defeat people who use these phrases is just say "sorry I don't understand" whenever they use them. Most of the time the speaker doesn't know what the fuck they meant by leveraging their synergies either.

BUT let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater, there are occasions when this language defines a new idea or method that needs a name. Brainstorming isn't just a wanky way of saying "shout out some ideas", it's a formal approach to help groups of people problem solve, innit.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 8:04, 5 replies)

"There is no single correct usage"
That's what all the thick people say.
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 8:28, closed)

Mmmm, I think it’s the other way round.

It takes a level of ignorance and arrogance for a person to believe that the way they were taught to speak an evolving language, with over three billion people speakers, is the one and only correct way.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 10:10, closed)

yeah...
...no. There quite clearly is an accepted standard for almost all languages. It may be the case that consistently breaking that standard causes it to change, but that does not mean that a particular phrase is not wrong at any given point in time.

[edit: you can break a language into dialects if you would like, but that doesn't undermine my point.]

Not to mention that - in my opinion - if you can't be bothered to speak your native language to the standard that is widely expected, all you are displaying is your academic ineptitude, and quite frankly you should expect to be scorned.
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:19, closed)

Oooh - you said 'Brainstorming'!
The b-word has recently been banned in a local school because it upsets mongs. Trufact.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:15, closed)

Or is it because some eedjit
*thinks* it would upset mongs? Were any mongs consulted?
( Fronds are waving gently on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:02, closed)