Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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What did he suggest as an alternative?My public-school headmaster used to hate the word basically too -- but it does convey a meaning that "put simply", for example, hides behind a ertain degree of patronisation.
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Actually knowing the subject you have to talk about.(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 18:11, closed)
I do...But there's little point explaining the workings of DNS to my dear old mother, for example.
I like the "in summary", and in a lecture I'd say it was more correct, so perhaps we agree apart from certain contexts.
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