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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is cracking me up. I consider myself a grammarian and yet, I do half of these things, mainly because I like to joke around a lot with language and stay casual, but correct, if possible.

I hate business speak and the words that are all the rage at my office are:
[list]Gain alignment, as in "we need to gain alignment on this topic at the next meeting" or "did you gain alignment with Tom?"
impacted (used as "affected")
stakeholders
senior leaders (i.e. intentionally vague, but everyone more senior than the person saying it.)[/list]

I also have to laugh when my boss, who, it's amazing she graduated college with some of the stuff she says, says things like, "where we're at", "Is that all the questions?", "her and I spoke," mispronounced the city "Tuscon" as "Tuscan" for an entire conference call, and used the word "unrepentantly" instead of "unexpectedly" in one of her emails that read "So-and-so is unrepentantly out of the office today".   She is also a native English speaker, so that's not the problem.

for those who love this thread, consider reading George Carlin's book Braindroppings.  It has tons of stuff like that in there.

Just sayin'   :)

PS I absolutely can't stand LOL and it makes me think you are stuck with a dial-up modem somewhere in 1996.[/quote]

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