To really, really hate it when people use words like 'practicable'?

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That's just it, really! When did these misused and annoying developments in email business speak become so common? If you mean it's practical, say it's practical! If you mean it is something that is possible to try and put into practice, say 'it's possible'. What the eff is practicable? I get a bit stabby every time i hear it...

Op Sometimes management speak popularizes buzz words as a method of using business concepts encapsulated in words like you describe or phrases.

Yes diarise is another one!

I have never heard that word

Thevictorian - eh?

YABVU about the excellent and useful word 'practicable'

YADNBU about 'utilize' , 'feedback' as a verb etc

Yabu
Practicable is a word ....

But wouldn't the world be a boring place if everyone used the simplest possible words all of the time?

And sometimes the words do have slightly different meanings IMO - maybe am wrong but to use a couple of examples from up thread I consider plethora to have a different meaning than 'a lot' as it relates to excess, and 'sourced' is different than 'found' as it can relate to the process of finding the thing as well

I find every word that posters have mentioned on here, including basically unbearable, sorry FWW

Its vacous

TIMEOUSLY??!! Blimey, I have been out of the workplace too long!

On second thoughts, though ... I rather like it. It's obvious what it means, unlike all those envelope, curve, box, horizon, sky and cloud related expressions.

Transparent really gets my goat. I do both programming and businessing (see what I did there ) In programming, 'transparent' means invisible to the user - it's like a trick layer of the program, which hides the workings from the user. In business, it's supposed to mean the exact opposite - not only is this normally a transparent lie (heh) but the speaker might actually mean it in the programming sense.

I've never seen so many phrases altered to mean what they don't mean, so rapidly, as by our current government though. It's quite breathtaking.

Sadly for you, OP, practicable is a good old-fashioned word, meaning 'can be done'.

Yes monty I did just say "basically". Bollocks. Just trained myself out of "at the end of the day".

Hopefully, going forward, I'll stop using irritating words. Especially, when I start to encompass more blue sky thinking. And start thinking outside the box and start to utilise and source better words.

Like huggle.

Why not just 'practical' then Garlic ?

Oh I can't bear the office lingo. And to me timeous(ly) reminds me of a poem, I can't remember which one, I've googled to no avail, but I'll find it by hook or by crook...tomorrow ;)

To a Mouse? (wee tim'rous beastie)

(That was addressed to Monty - not just an odd question)

Because practicable means "capable of being done, effected, or put into practice"

and practical means "adapted or designed for actual use; useful" in the sense you're using Monty

"It was not practicable to put up an umbrella because of the wind"

"The umbrella was a very practical item to have on a rainy day"

I think that's right -is it?

Practicable is used a lot in law. It's not a new or made up word.

I work with a guy who keeps reminding us that we're not to "solutionize". So far, I've managed to restrain myself but I've prepared my husband for the possibility that I may be going away for 7- time off for terrified and compliant behaviour.

Practicable just sounds clumsy to me, even though I know it is a real word.
The word 'scan' annoys me. It means to look at something in detail and can mean the opposite - to glance over something. Why?

Sorry, but 'timeous' ants 'timeously' have very specific meanings and particular uses (at least in a legal context). It means 'to get things done in good time', and is a bit more nuanced than 'promptly' which has a nearer meaning to 'straight away'. You might not be able to do something 'promptly' because it is contingent on something else happening first, but you would be acting 'timeously' if you did it as soon as you were able.

You could say "the organisation failed to take action on the project as soon as they were able to" or you could say "the organisation failed to act timeously". The latter is more elegant.

Having said that, I have seen in two government documents this week a statement that "X will take 4 months to be outcommed" and someone who had allegedly not told the truth being described as "a verbal deceptive".

As a friend of mine commented, come the revolution, people who use such language will be the first to be "wall-adjacented".

Practicable does not mean the same as practical or possible. I probably use it in just about every piece of written correspondence I produce at work. I am not a lawyer but advise companies on compliance with a small number of sets of legislation.

Use of the words eclectic, zeitgeist and vertigous in glossy magazines makes me stabby.

Timeous isn't legal speak, as such. It's Scottish. Scottish people (perhaps from certain areas of Scotland) use it, and it has crept into quite a lot of legal and financial literature and group-speak because of Scottish people working in those fields. I don't want to out myself but I am personally aware of enthusiastic Scottish users of the word who have made sure it is represented in regulations etc.

I use practicable quite often at work. And ascertain.

Boss tells me to diarise and gives me feedback though.

Not sure what you're complaining about. The word 'practicable' appears in English literature/language as far back as 1593. Here's the entry from the OED

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 130 There might fall-out fiue hundred practicable cases, and a thousand disputable questions in a yeare..wherewith they neuer disquieted their braynes.

Another one who uses 'practicable' a lot at work.

Confused by the hatred for 'diarise' - when my boss asks me to diarise our next meeting I do just that. Is he meant to ask me to 'look in our diaries, find a good slot and then book it in'? Seems needlessly long...

I do hate people who use 'myself' where they ought to use 'me' but they want to sound more sophisticated.

"Myself" instead of "me" is the new "literally".

My industry uses 'revert' as in 'get back to you' - 'I'll check that with X and then revert'.

I always imagine they're going to check with X and then turn back into a frog.