I fancy a new tread so we can vent at the vagaries of modern commercial/political wa*k speak creeping into every day speaking. I shall get the ball rolling with : "MOVING FORWARD". Boils my piss. The word you are looking for is FUTURE.
Reaching out (sounds like the actions of a dying beggar) the single word is contacting Foot race (WTAF) slowly infecting the BBC!!
And instagram. And TikTok. And Facebook. I could fill a book, but here’s a couple of special ones. it’s not personal, it’s business. 22 billion black hole
The first word in Beowulf, the earliest work in Old English, is "Hwaet". This is sometimes translated into modern English as "Lo" or "Hark", but Seamus Heaney in his brilliant translation chooses "So." As Heaney puts it, "... the particle 'so' comes naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom 'so' operates as an expression which obliterates all previous discourse and narrative, and at the same time functions as an exclamation calling for immediate attention. So 'so' it was." I couldn't have put it better myself. #16Feb 6, 2016
Where do I start…… toxic, anyways, do the math, reached out, I’m not gonna lie, ghosted, cancelled, far right. I’ll think of more.
Boils my piss. Jon Sopel (ex Newsnight and now a rather self-satisfied regime podcast host on the News Agents) does that. Tony Blair used to do it too. I don’t know why people do it as it comes across as though the person saying it is losing patience with the listener (ie: me).
Agree. But it’s the particular corporate wankology of LinkedIn that chimes with this thread. Amiright?* There’s a subreddit called “LinkedIn Psychopaths” or similar which showcases screenshots of particularly egregious examples. I’ll find the link and post it. * IYKYK
