Worst Buzzwords
What's wrong with this sentence:"While we're leveraging our assets, can you synopsize the mission-critical meeting, then relanguage it by the targeted completion date?"According to BuzzWhack: 13 Most Dreadful Buzzwords, that one sentence alone contains five of the worst buzzwords of 2006. The one that gives me the creeps is "relanguage", about which the website offers, "relanguage: Term used by $300-an-hour consultants when $1 words, such as reword, rephrase or rewrite, would work just as well." Now, I've been accused of trying to sound snooty or pedantic by using (not utilizing) my vocabulary of big words that just come naturally to me, but at least I don't make up new words. Not really. Not often. Only for a humorous effect. $300 an hour, huh? Let me just relanguage my curriculum vitae and get back to you.
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:54 AM
1 Comments:
I loathe (abhor, detest, despise...) buzzwords. I can't remember when I didn't like them and I try my best not to use them. My pet peeve is when people turn nouns into verbs. Sends me into the forest, screaming, pulling my hair out.
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