In Case You Wondered

[lawnrrd]

Words that I hate (among others):

• utilize
• facilitate

Comments

Agreed.

[daoistraver.livejournal.com]

Use and help are perfectly fine words that we don't need to replace.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Two words that I hate when verbed: implement and architect.
GOD am I glad to be out of the corporate world. Not that academia doesn't have its own noxious jargon.

[lawnrrd]

Not that academia doesn't have its own noxious jargon.

All I have to say is that if I see a hermeneutic crawling across my floor, I'm going to grab a heavy book and squish it.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

See, whenever I hear that word, I think of Hermetic newts, and that sort of cheers me up. As a stodgy old classicist, I think I hate the touchy-feely newfangled terms the most. Othering, indeed.

I'll See Your Othering and Raise You a Subaltern

[lawnrrd]

I now have a mental image of a group of salamanders wearing hooded cloaks, their faces mostly obscured by their cowls.