Stop saying "utilize"!

[Anonymous]

OMG! I hate the utilization of the word word "leverage" around my office. If I hear one more person use the word leverage...arghh!!!

[Anonymous]

^^hahah. No! Of course I dont want to leverage Bob's knowledge of the system to input the data in the most efficient way possible. Bob is an ass and his farts stink!

[Anonymous]

If one more person leverages the utilization of the phrase "writ large," i'm going to puke.

[Anonymous]

How about "moreso"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If one more person leverages the utilization of the phrase "writ large," i'm going to puke.

Hmmm. Ive never heard this one before. What does "writ large" mean? Does it mean that you are supposed to write something in large letters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If one more person leverages the utilization of the phrase "writ large," i'm going to puke.

Never heard that one before. What does it mean?

[Anonymous]

google is your friend...

writ large (slightly formal)
expressed in a bigger or more obvious way She believed that cultures are just personalities writ large. The genius of the story is that it's about ordinary life writ large.
Usage notes: usually used after a noun, as in the examples

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:google is your friend...

writ large (slightly formal)
expressed in a bigger or more obvious way She believed that cultures are just personalities writ large. The genius of the story is that it's about ordinary life writ large.
Usage notes: usually used after a noun, as in the examples

Thanks! My office actually blocks google...but I can still get on DCUM. Ha. I shall continue to outsmart them!!

[Anonymous]

ITA! Also hate "impacted"! Only teeth and colons are impacted.

[Anonymous]

Agree with the "impacted" hate. It sounds awful and ignorant. Maybe even worse is the misuse of "myself." People use it instead of "I" or "me" when it's completely inappropriate except under very limited circumstances.

Thanks for the vent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree OP. I hate the word utilize. I find that IT people use it more than anyone.

Actually, faux IT. These are the people that are in IT, but have degrees in social sciences or humanities but took the IT job because it paid more, even though they don't really know what they're doing. Actual engineering majors use shorter words because many of them don't type well, so fewer keystrokes are better.

Oh my. I've been infected. No real engineer would actually use "faux" when they could have said "fake IT." *sigh* I've been around them too long.

[Anonymous]

I was once in a meeting with a guy who said a word I didn't recognize, which is very unusual for me. So I said, "'Diminimous?' What the hell is that?" He said, "it means 'insignificant, immaterial.'" Come to find out he's using the latin term "de minimus" which does in fact mean "insignificant or immaterial" but the fact that he had to use a latin term when a perfectly normal english term would do made me decide he was a total douchebag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well at least she didn't use "task" as a verb. It's governmenteze--"We tasked them to do the project." UGH

This is a dreadful trend for other words, too. "Birth" is NOT a verb, and shouldn't be used as one. UGH. What on earth was wrong with the old "delivering" of a baby that had to be ditched in favor of "birthing" the baby?

[Anonymous]

Another personal favorite of mine is when people say "nonplussed" and mean something like "not pleased." I'm a big jerk, but I actually responded in a recent meeting, "that word does not mean what you think it means."

[Anonymous]

"vehicle" - I drove my vehicle to the store. Argh.

and the previously mentioned misuse of "I" as the object of the preposition and "myself" when used as a direct or indirect object when "I" is not the subject.