[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> 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.'"


ok, confused here... I would 'hear' what you wrote above as:  report, out 
from you...

not report-out

Is report-out supposed to be a single verb? (like --shudder-- a 'shout 
out'??)

Am I missing something in translation between boss's voice and your words? 
Help me out here.
Lynn


website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the 
ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is 
leaning against the wrong wall.”

"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

--------------------------------------------------
>
> "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:
>>
>>> "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
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA