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Outstanding!!! It's been added to my Bookmarks. :thumb: :yo:
The word "digital"
"Coffee culture."
The phrase "Just sayin'."
One pet peeve I have:
Someone asking me for an "input" or giving me their "input." Input? Input! Input is a machine word. I'm not a machine and they aren't a machine. That word emerged in the 1970s as the act of articulating a physical command into or inserting data into a computer. Its a machine word fer cryin' outloud. So, some hip manager started using it as a cool vernacular for "inputing" orders to his employee and everybody thought it was so groovy they started using it themselves. I ain't a machine so I will accept or offer recommendations and suggestions. I think the subtlety of using that word is not well understood. Why would I "input" information to someone who isn't a machine?
The Menopausal Helmet.
I'll join you in agreement on this.Holy cow they're real...
That's the scariest thing I've seen since pre-shredded jeans.
One pet peeve I have:
Someone asking me for an "input" or giving me their "input." Input? Input! Input is a machine word. I'm not a machine and they aren't a machine. That word emerged in the 1970s as the act of articulating a physical command into or inserting data into a computer. Its a machine word fer cryin' outloud. So, some hip manager started using it as a cool vernacular for "inputing" orders to his employee and everybody thought it was so groovy they started using it themselves. I ain't a machine so I will accept or offer recommendations and suggestions. I think the subtlety of using that word is not well understood. Why would I "input" information to someone who isn't a machine?
Anybody interested or affected by anything, no matter how inconsequential is now a "stakeholder". Don't know why, but that one really chaps my behind. My former boss would have been mute if he couldn't speak in buzzese. He thought it made him look smart or "cutting edge".Along similar lines, I would so LOVE to do away with the buzzword speak that seems so popular in today's business world.
Along similar lines, I would so LOVE to do away with the buzzword speak that seems so popular in today's business world. We dont' work with someone or some other organization, we "partner with them" and "support" them (what are we bridge pillars now?). We don't quickly accomplish little things we "capture the low hanging fruit." We can't work together and maximize skills. Rather we leverage and synergize. And blahblahblahblah. It's getting so we almost need English subtitles to understand this nonsense anymore.
This is definitely one "modern" thing that I won't miss when it falls out of fashion and (please, God!) disappears.
As I've alluded to in my previous post, one of the things I don't like about e-readers is that you don't really own the books. I still remember a few years ago when Amazon didn't have the publishing rights to Orwell's 1984, appropriately enough, so they deleted it from everyone's accounts.