antithetical (rather than antithesis) that seems to be a current favorite
care to share some other things that pop up in your daily speech?
for example - today in conversation...
mitigate
fruitful
actionable
out of context some of these words sound harsh and self-important, but in the conversations where i used them they flow... funny how that goes.
care to share some other things that pop up in your daily speech?
for example - today in conversation...
mitigate
fruitful
actionable
out of context some of these words sound harsh and self-important, but in the conversations where i used them they flow... funny how that goes.
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Re: antithetical and other delicious "articulations"
Mon, March 7, 2005 - 7:46 PMI caught myself saying actionable today . . . then gagged and ran to wash out my mouth with soap. I left the corporate world behind, what with its paradigms and actionable objectives. -
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Re: antithetical and other delicious "articulations"
Mon, March 7, 2005 - 8:09 PMit was corporate slang but i was using it in a conversation about food styling ... i said there was nothing in my instructions that indicated the chef expected additional "actionable" ingredients and props for the job. a corporate guy said it first and so i used it in my reply. under the circumstances it sounded better than "you didn't tell me the guy needed stuff to 'do things' with"...
i always sounds like legalese (funny word) to me.
as in "if you do not cease and desist this will be considered actionable, and i'll see you in court"
i'd love to have said that to the guy. he was a
www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bi...tionary
click on the second audio symbol to hear my preferred pronunciation...
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