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RapidEye

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« on: January 23, 2012, 01:21 »

http://xkcd.com/1007/


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dcdp

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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 03:58 »

 Grin Gold


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Microbius
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 04:05 »

Wow, that's fantastic. LMAO


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Difydave

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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 06:18 »

Great find!


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jsnover
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 10:43 »

Good words gone bad Smiley


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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2012, 16:12 »

 Grin


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JPSDK


« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2012, 08:24 »

Dont worry. When first words become common enough, they become meaningless and eventually politically incorrect or both.
And are replaced,
And the cyclus starts over...


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michaeldb


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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2012, 23:03 »

"Dont worry. When first words become common enough, they become meaningless..."
Yes, like 'utilize'. As in "There are many programs in the works utilizing the brainpower and reach of our newly combined Getty Images and iStock teams to achieve this goal exactly." iStock 1-24-12


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jamirae
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2012, 10:46 »

"Dont worry. When first words become common enough, they become meaningless..."
Yes, like 'utilize'. As in "There are many programs in the works utilizing the brainpower and reach of our newly combined Getty Images and iStock teams to achieve this goal exactly." iStock 1-24-12

I do not like that word - 'utilize' - it always sounds to me like someone trying to talk like a 'grown up' by using a big word when a smaller, more common word will do - I prefer to 'use' things rather than 'utilize' them.  Smiley


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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2012, 11:55 »

"Utilize" is part of corporate America's core vocabulary and is required in any official communication.  Typically, that which is "utilized" is a "resource".    And "resource" is usually a way to conceptually reduce a person, or group of people, to the status of office furniture.


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TheBlackRhino


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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2012, 14:31 »



We're sorry, but we found the overall composition of this word lacking visual impact and therefore not suitable as stock. Please don't take it personally.


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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2012, 01:08 »

We strive to leverage our core competency by identifying important metrics and circling back via relentless repeatability.  Grin

There is little I loathe more than corporate double speak and obfuscation.


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JPSDK


« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2012, 07:04 »

BTW.

Winston Churchill says about the battle of Midway (and I quote after how I can remember): The Japaneese lost the battle mainly because of the complexity and vagueness of their language, so that they could not issue many meaningfull and precise orders in a short time and such were not able to adjust their plans to unexpected threads.

That is very interesting. Language can be dangerous.

and actually we know that, and the response to all the cooperate and institutional BS we have to listen to, and even ahve to speak in the right surroundings, is of course, that we develop a substitute slang, which is often ironical.

Actually you can measure the distance from the intents of the HQ to the employee, by the gap in language, and the evolution of corporate slang.

The longer you stay in an environment with a wide gap, the more difficult you will find  it to adapt to a new field.

Which fx explains why military veterans are difficult to reassimilate. (well, part of)
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