Comments on: Wordie http://www.meryl.net/2007/01/03/wordie/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy Mason http://www.meryl.net/2007/01/03/wordie/comment-page-1/#comment-59810 Andy Mason Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:21:36 +0000 http://meryl.net/2007/01/03/wordie/#comment-59810 <p>Ah, hateful business words...</p> <ul> <li><p>Any noun that has been turned into a verb ("lunching", "diarizing" being two particularly odious examples.)</p></li> <li><p>Starbursting...a politically correct replacement for brainstorming in the UK.</p></li> <li><p>"Thinking outside the box" which has now become such a cliche...</p></li> </ul> <p>Some of the words on yuri_g's list seem pretty innocuous but I have to concur when it comes to "monetize", "incentivize" and "leverage", the last of which has been seriously overused.</p> Ah, hateful business words…

  • Any noun that has been turned into a verb (“lunching”, “diarizing” being two particularly odious examples.)

  • Starbursting…a politically correct replacement for brainstorming in the UK.

  • “Thinking outside the box” which has now become such a cliche…

Some of the words on yuri_g’s list seem pretty innocuous but I have to concur when it comes to “monetize”, “incentivize” and “leverage”, the last of which has been seriously overused.

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