to wonder when the following took place and why did noone tell me?

[StealthPolarBear]

For about the first 30 years of my life, 'source' was almost exclusively a noun. Now it's almost exclusively used as a verb - why?

Which "Little book of management crap" decided that the new way to say "From now" or "In the future" is "Moving forward". If I hear it one more time I will scream and pull my hair out. Which other way would we be moving, when it comes to time?

I am marking exams and have discovered that 'impact' is now a verb. Apparently Rochester's decision not to tell Jane Eyre that he is already married impacts badly on her.

OP, I groove with your concept.

Do you all work where I work? I honestly thought that we were the only place where people talk all this kind of crap.

I'd love to know what percentage of us work in the public services, I'm thinking it might be high!

"We need to spank the monkey"

olderandwider - my money is on you making that up !

Jux - did you see a PM sent (possibly after you went to sort out food on Thursday[?]) and are you feeling better now?

For the love of God - no spanking the monkey in public, please! And certainly not at work.

We had a thought shower at work the other day.

Despite the extreme use of management speak at my place of work, we all giggled at the person who sent the agenda out.

I really loathe being told to take things off line, that is very passive aggressive IMO. Like being asked to step outside to sort it aaaaaht, but wearing a suit.

Yes I agree with the offline insinuation

And another one

"OUTWITH"

Never ever heard the word for the first 30 years of my life, now someone says it to me every day. Without any realisation of how they sound. OK it might be a word, but it's obviously been made up by the Managers little book of crap, and whatever you're using it for can be said in a much easier to understand way!

Outwith is Scottish

really? I am warming to it then if it's dialect rather than crap management speak. And actually a particular colleague I have noticed using it is scottish (but many others arne't)

yes, feel sure "outwith" crops up on the World at One (BBC R4) when certain MPs are interviewed...

after a bit of blue sky thinking we should go for some quick wins and pick some low hanging fruit.

to answer an earlier post (sorry if it's already been posted) a straw man is setting something up so you can easily knock it down. For example making an easily disprovable assertion and following it up with arguments against: some people say robert mugabe is great but i think...

yes, NG when the MP is Scottish, or the interviewee is so.

had lots of fun in Nth America a few years ago using 'fortnight' - they know not what it means.

moving forward - I have desire to kill them too.

iterate seems to be getting used more too. a bit annoying.

TeamDamon I feel your pain. Apparently in Jane Austen's day they sat around talking of an evening because they didn't have Facebook.

Also they had lifestyles then.

And Othello didn't feel Desdemona was there for him.

Whatever.

at Desdemona being there.
Pan, is that you, boy?

LOL AP, re "they know not what it means" - I thought salary in many firms is often paid fortnightly, and rent for apartments taken at similar frequency too!