[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Scott Knitter]

My current irks: "report out" - as in "Scott, we'll need a report-out
from you this afternoon on the TRS form revision." I should probably
say what I think when I hear that: "I'll need an explanation first of
the difference between a 'report-out' and a 'report.'"

"ask" instead of request: "What's the ask here?" Granted, "ask" is
shorter, and Anglo-Saxon, which are good things usually, but why is
"request" such a burden?

"some of" - Some of my colleagues have a habit of saying "some of"
because perhaps saying "all" feels too committing or something? "Let's
have Mary incorporate some of the revisions that we decided on."
Clearly "all of" is what's meant. I want to ask, "Some? Which ones,
and who gets to decide?" One of our managers does this constantly:
"John will tell us about some of the organizational changes." No, he's
going to tell us about all of them, because each one of them will
affect everyone in the room.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:33 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
<oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
>  wrote:
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>> "Verbing weirds language.”
>>
>> Calvin and Hobbes
>>
>> “The worst form of corruption is acceptance of corruption.”  Herblock
>
>
> Well, I'm not sure that the weirding of language is corruption.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA