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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A few that I don't think have been mentioned yetCIA
PIN
IMF
RADAR
Some of those are acronyms, some are initialisations. Learn the difference. On no account refer to TLA syndrome.
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Contemporary is not a synonym for modern. It means of the same time as. A contemporary Victorian house would have the toilet in the garden. And a contemporary Shakespearean play would be performed in Elizabethan costume.
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(Usually American) "All priests are not paedophiles" when they mean "Not all priests are paedophiles". The first one implies that NO priests are paedophiles.
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Infer/imply errors.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)
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