Do these articles show up for people? I get three lines that fade out.
mdip 2 days ago [-]
The only issue I've ever had with archive.* links had to do with compatibility with Cloudflare's DNS but those just fail to resolve. I'm not sure what three lines that fade out is all about -- extensions, maybe?
neonate 7 hours ago [-]
https://archive.md/Owu7u works for me. I wonder why this link would be appearing differently to different people. I've seen that faded three line thing many times, but this time.
mdip 2 days ago [-]
A buddy of mine started me on a similar habit that I find obnoxious but impossible to kick.
It started when we were in a meeting with an executive (who was a wonderful man) who -- due to nerves -- used the filler phrase "ya know" about twice a sentence -- like someone who's nervous might use the filler word "um" or "uh."
When the meeting was over, I'd joked that he'd said "ya know" three times in the same sentence and without missing a beat he said "541, I counted"[0]. He went on to explain that when someone repeats a word/phrase, especially if it's a word that's used "to sound intelligent", he can't help but count.
Incidentally, despite having no reason to be suspicious[1], I didn't believe him and being in an IT department with its share of folks with social anxiety and various forms of autism[2], it took all of a day before we were in another meeting with someone who, I think, pronounced "infeasible" as "in-THESE-able." A minor mistake, but he repeated it a solid thirty times and liked to really push that emphasis on the second syllable. We got out of the meeting and I asked for his number. "37"[0] he said. I was one off. It ended up becoming a weird sort of corporate meeting game that we did a few times a month over 17 years. It's a ridiculously easy habit to pick up, it turns out. I've been out of that job for years and I still do it. No real reason, any longer. I don't think less of people who don't have a solid command of public speaking -- as in, I'm not doing it for the purpose of feeling superior or being a d!ck and pointing it out to them. The only people that know I do this (other than readers of my comments on HN) are my kids and the guy who got me hooked.
[0] The exact number escapes me but it was a suspiciously random sounding number
[1] This guy marched to the beat of a different drummer. I have so many stories of outlandish claims he made that turned out to be absolutely true by this point that I should have taken him at his word. By this point he'd shown me a receipt indicating his bill was less than a dime for what must have been two carts worth of groceries (early 2000s), and it was only a dime because he bought something from the register to avoid a negative balance (a problem he's navigated in the past).
[2] Myself and (I suspect) my friend are diagnosed ASD as well.
jaggederest 2 days ago [-]
I swear I did this once in school, to a teacher with a notoriously circuitous manner of speaking, by holding up my fingers and counting the filler words, and he slowly noticed it, became mildly horrified, and... fixed it, within about 6 weeks. Pretty impressive, I wonder what he did to change so quickly.
Originally he'd take 2 minutes to get through his name and phone number on a voicemail, and a few months later you wouldn't even recognize him by how clear and concise he was.
tomcam 4 hours ago [-]
Wonderful story but we must also acknowledge the teacher for going along with it so gracefully
jaggederest 2 hours ago [-]
All the credit is his, I was just a dumb little punk who didn't know better. Handling it gracefully and making such an astounding change in response.
craftkiller 2 days ago [-]
With how great speech recognition is becoming, it seems like this is something remote workers could easily discreetly do since our conversations tend to be stationary, through a computer, and with only a small part of our body visible. Just wire up some electrodes to zap you every time the computer detects filler. I'm now seriously considering doing it myself.
alex1115alex 2 days ago [-]
One of our app devs built this recently, but for swearing:
A wearable speech coach would be awesome, though. Detect filler words and give you an alert on your HUD when it detects "uh" "uhm" etc.
khafra 33 minutes ago [-]
How should the speech coach stimulate you when it detects you using a particularly euphonously or impactfully?
craftkiller 1 days ago [-]
Neat! Without the electrodes I don't think it would be effective for me for "uhh" / "uhm". Considering how unconscious filler words are, I think I'd need the immediate unignorable feedback. But you've got all the logic there, it just needs to be made more violent.
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frereubu 2 days ago [-]
For my sins I was once in a Microsoft SQL training session. The guy leading it was great, but at the end of every thought he'd make a noise in his throat, like "uhn" or similar. I couldn't stop noticing it acting like a carriage return at the end of each thought, and hyper-fixated on it to the extent that I learnt precisely nothing.
djmips 4 hours ago [-]
Nvidia or someone needs to get on a method to filter out the filler words / weird sounds in realtime and failing that automated post processing of saved presentations.
protocolture 4 hours ago [-]
I find a lot of people in IT and adjacent areas picked up a lot of their vocab by reading, without any guidance on pronunciation. I tend to let them get to 3 goes before correcting them.
craftkiller 2 days ago [-]
I once worked for a CEO that pronounced "year" as "yeah". I loved it. Every meeting felt like a pep rally because it was sprinkled with phrases like "we've got four yeahs" and "we worked all yeah on this".
alsetmusic 2 days ago [-]
Northeast USA, maybe NY or NJ?
craftkiller 1 days ago [-]
I think he was Australian but we were in silicon valley at the time (though I live+work in that area now).
nopassrecover 3 hours ago [-]
Yeah I can picture it. The non-rhotic R on its own doesn’t narrow it further, but there would be distinction within Australia based on the sounds of the “ea” part.
Off the cuff I can picture some Australians taking it more nasally at the top of the palate sort of yee-ah (think Steve Irwin), a more neutral yeehr with a hint of final r (but more clipped and mono syllable than an American accent), or even a yair that might push as far as yuhhh (heading towards a sort of hybrid of Californian Valley Girl and the posh British accent used in American media).
I’ve played similar games at work when people were particularly distracting by how often they said some of these things.
Funny enough, “ya know” was one of the main phrases. I hear that a lot from people in NJ, I’m curious if your co-worker was from NJ as well, or the general vicinity.
WWLink 5 hours ago [-]
I had a college professor who used "basically" and "essentially" so much that it was awfully distracting.
aoanevdus 2 hours ago [-]
When I was a kid, an adult told me that I should stop using “basically” as a filler word because people will interpret it as an insult to their intelligence (ie. “You’re not smart enough for the whole thing, so I will just tell you the basic version”). I’ve been attentive to the way other people use the word ever since, and I think they have a point. Some people say it very frequently and don’t mean anything by it. But a good chunk of the time, it does seem like there is a status game going on when people use that word.
tomcam 4 hours ago [-]
Which bothers me a lot in that context. Those are normally powerful distinctions in an academic context…
psunavy03 2 days ago [-]
If you speak publicly at all as part of your job, it's actually a good thing to keep track of your verbal/physical tics and try to eliminate/minimize them. Whether it's "umm," "you know," a hand gesture you keep doing, subconsciously swaying back and forth slightly, or whatever. They're all distracting even before you get to the level where people start counting them.
stronglikedan 2 days ago [-]
> his bill was less than a dime for what must have been two carts worth of groceries (early 2000s)
Ah, yes, the coupon cutters that would spend all of their free time trying to get a deal. But if they were happy doing it, then who am I to judge.
mdip 2 days ago [-]
He did it more out of necessity, originally, but when I met him, yeah, it was "for fun". Among the other stories I found to be true was "I worked at KFC for $8/hr and owned a home[0]"
[0] In a lower-middle-class neighborhood.
e3bc54b2 2 days ago [-]
Now I want more of these stories. I've met couple of drummers among sitarists in life but you've got 17 years(!) worth of stories :D
codersfocus 5 hours ago [-]
More likely he learned the algorithm to create fake coupons himself. If I recall correctly it's literally just the UPC and how much to take off. There was NO security to the system.
georgebcrawford 6 hours ago [-]
"beat of a different drummer."
I really want to check if it's drum or drummer, but will refrain and live in hope that it was a clever joke
charlieglass 2 hours ago [-]
I thought is was just "marches to the beat of his own drum."
That way, no other party is involved, it is him doing life the way he way he wants to.
...unless you're saying he pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?
andelink 2 days ago [-]
> pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?
That’s how I read it
KineticLensman 2 days ago [-]
We used to make notes of management-isms and then play buzzword-bingo in company-wide meetings. When you got a full card, to properly win, you were required to ask the management a question that included the word 'house' (saying 'bingo' would have been too obvious, even for our managers).
protocolture 4 hours ago [-]
Had a similar game when I was in a weird role. 2 separate lines of business had their own internal IT functions. However, thanks to a weird set of accountability/responsibility we maintained the hardware/platform of the public webserver while they maintained the website.
So we had 2 pots. The meaner pot was internal to our own team, where we would bet on both how many users would connect to the webserver before it crashed, and then what the other team would blame as the fault. It was always ~3200 and it was almost always RAM.
One of us would sit in on their publicity events, and present the other team with live readouts on hardware usage. The server had umpteen processors with eleventy Jigahertz, and all the RAM that could fit in the chassis (~128GB from memory). 3000 odd users would connect simultaneously, RAM usage would spike to 2%, processor usage would spike to 3% and the website would crash. We would cash in on their pot as to the number of successful simultaneous connections. Then we would go back to our team, and cash in on users AND whatever they were blaming.
After which our IT managers would have their monthly duel where ours would send them a quote to build a better website and they would send us a strongly worded email about how they felt the hardware was the bottleneck.
echelon 2 days ago [-]
We used to do this for every earnings call.
We printed up bingo cards filled with buzzwords, products, trends, things we thought the analysis might say, etc.
We charged $15 per card, all of which was pooled and given to the charity of the winner's choice. When the CEO caught on, he started matching the donations.
There was a reverse version of this played too. We voted in Slack for some weird word or phrase that the CEO or CFO had to say during the earnings calls. They were super awkward and totally unrelated, and the goal was they had to weasel the phrase in somehow. It was pretty funny.
(For someone else in the know, without giving away the company, do you remember any of the wacky phrases?)
pugz 2 hours ago [-]
I currently work at the company. Wacky words that I can find in Slack include
- updog
- stegosaurus
- brat
- flabbergasted
- superbowl
- crouton
marcusb 2 days ago [-]
I once had a coworker who called this "bullshit bingo" and had a bingo grid drawn on a whiteboard at her desk with all of the latest buzzwords.
On a somewhat-related note, my grandfather told me that while he was in Officer Candidate School in the Army, there would be someone assigned to ring a bell whenever a person who was leading a briefing or otherwise presenting faltered with an "oral pause" (uh, ummm, etc.) I don't know if this was a normal or ongoing practice.
quercusa 2 days ago [-]
Toastmasters has someone assigned to count these when someone is making a speech but the bell is next level.
CPLX 2 days ago [-]
I once had to work with a consultant who was the most over the top bullshit artist I had ever seen in my life. Their line of work was getting "out of it" execs to feel like he understood the online world and getting paid to create nonsense launches.
I used to take notes and just try to capture the buzzword onslaught. Here's an old notepad cut-and-paste from a single 90 minute meeting this guy was in:
We should sidebar
I’ll call an audible and order lunch
So maybe we’ll put that into a live fire exercise
We’re elbow deep now
I’m starting to ladder into goals and tactics
Let’s explore this for a second so we can put it in the parking lot
Let’s take a bio-break
It’s not on the top of my want-to-do list
I want to get back to some more basic block and tackle
If you look at it as crawl, walk, run. I mean I hate that metaphor, but we’re transitioning from crawl to walk
I have some suggestions around merchandising homepage content
I’ve already done concepting
It’s analytics with icebreaking on the social side
I’ll type up outputs and share
We’re potentially opening the aperture on expert interviews
Out of this decision comes wayfinding for that decision
I’m looking for the exponential in this
Alright, I think we can land it
delichon 2 days ago [-]
I take joy in inventing new broken cliches and save them up for conversations. If I saw someone keeping score I'd ask them to publish a leaderboard so that I could compete for bragging wrongs.
chris_st 2 days ago [-]
Where I worked last the dress code was super relaxed, unless a bigwig or customer was expected. Made a co-worker laugh once by describing us as "Dressed to the ones".
jagged-chisel 2 days ago [-]
> … bragging wrongs
Brilliant.
staticautomatic 5 hours ago [-]
You don’t exactly have to be a rocket surgeon to invent them.
wut-wut 2 days ago [-]
Same faml, same.
cafard 2 days ago [-]
A sometime co-worker had on display in her office a list of "Molly-isms" (name redacted) assembled by those who worked closely with her. I did not particularly, and don't recall them.
A woman I worked with long ago was trying to tell her boss that something was "a whole new ballgame" but came out with "whole new ballpark." The boss didn't pick up on it, but after work she mentioned it to her husband, and "a whole new ballroom" became a family catchphrase.
nehal3m 2 days ago [-]
A friend of mine simply forgot the term thirsty and told me he felt the urge to drink. We kept that one too.
djmips 4 hours ago [-]
Toddlers are great for inventing phrases. Like Eating Store for restaurant.
tomcam 4 hours ago [-]
That is a way better term than restaurant
havermeyer 3 hours ago [-]
It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty."
THroaway225 2 days ago [-]
that made me feel like I wanted to start laughing!
switch007 3 hours ago [-]
I also had an urge to make my belly move in and out in a way that made a funny noise come out my mouth!
mrspuratic 2 days ago [-]
My handle arose from a former colleague's attempt, decades ago, to describe a network malfunction he was trying to diagnose as either (or both) of spurious and erratic in a single word...
dmurray 2 days ago [-]
Not too be confused with sporadic?
agentultra 2 days ago [-]
A family member of mine did this as an engineer for Chrysler. He passed on a copy of his “dictionary” to me and I’ve kept adding to it. I enjoy a good malapropism/egg-corn. He’s not around anymore but the legacy continues.
Update we kept our practice a secret though, it wasn’t nice to point these things out to people.
NegativeK 2 days ago [-]
My grandfather was well known at work for, uh, creative sayings. Malapropisms, misheard cliches, or just wild-ass new phrases. His coworkers took to secretly writing them down over the years, and they read them off during his retirement party to universal delight.
A copy of the list ended with us, the family, and has come up during my grandfather's wake and a few times since then.
Absolutely agree that it might not be nice, but context depending it absolutely can be -- as well as a really touching legacy.
HideousKojima 2 days ago [-]
Had a boss was terrible in other ways (he got fired over sexually harassing one of my coworkers) but he would constantly mess up common sayings. The one I remember most is "bumpin the bumper traffic" instead of "bumper to bumper".
parineum 2 days ago [-]
> he got fired over ... bumpin the bumper
mhb 2 days ago [-]
The risk of getting flagged added to the pressure of presenting at meetings, Murphy said. “All the sudden you’ll hear a pen click, and you’re thinking, ‘What did I say that wasn’t right?’”
"All the sudden"?
Ezra 2 days ago [-]
I think this is an eggcorn/mondegreen for “all of a sudden”.
Seems weird for the WSJ.
voxic11 2 days ago [-]
It's a quote from a source so at most I would expect a "[sic]". Thinking about it more... it seems like an intentional mistake by the speaker to demonstrate the sort of verbal flub the quote is about. In which case it's pretty clever and a "[sic]" would kind of ruin the subtlety of the joke.
mhb 2 days ago [-]
I think you're being too generous to both the speaker and the WSJ, but maybe that's too cynical.
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geocrasher 2 days ago [-]
As somebody who had to withhold a burst of laughter when hearing "procurator" mispronounced as "procreator", I approve of this article before even reading it.
NikkiA 3 hours ago [-]
I once was asking my parents to pick up some batteries for something or other while they were at the supermarket, when I was about 13/14 and had a brain fart and said 'Durex' (a brand of condoms common to most of the world except most of America) instead of 'Duracell'.
A tough conversation followed.
froindt 40 minutes ago [-]
My brain couldn't decide which word to use. I asked my mom when someone had moved into their condo/condominium, which came out as condom.
chris_wot 4 hours ago [-]
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, was once caught extolling the virtues of his candidate - he called her the "suppository of all wisdom".
nopmat 2 days ago [-]
A former boss of mine used to say “coopulate” when they meant “cooperate”.
0xbadcafebee 2 hours ago [-]
Seems like a weird pastime. Like recording spelling misttakes. Sniglets are a much more smarter way to spend your time. Rather than just a brain turd, they're a placental ejection of humor and common smarts.
millzlane 2 days ago [-]
Not relevant, but was that a Honda in his Driveway?
cebert 2 days ago [-]
No, that's a Mustange Mach-e
millzlane 17 hours ago [-]
Oh okay thanks for the updaten
Spooky23 2 days ago [-]
My team did a "Top 10" amusing/stupid/notable sayings and trolls in a year and has a little mock tribunal in the week after Christmas to determine the winner. The top troll got a little troll doll, spray painted gold, and we usually had the best or worst saying framed somehow. The top contributor for sayings would get a lucite award, which had been given to someone who was a charlatan who had left the company, updated with a sharpie and duct-tape.
That was one of my favorite groups of co-workers. Miss that crew!
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DrNosferatu 5 hours ago [-]
Didn’t he have better things to do?
This makes me question Ford’s corporate effectiveness, and therefore their cars…
I would love to know the most drama caused by this thing over the years —- and how close it came to being shut down.
tptacek 5 hours ago [-]
"Mazel tov cocktail" can be no flub!
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cantrecallmypwd 2 hours ago [-]
A coworker of mine kept score on paper when the associate vice provost used a certain bizword during their all-hands speech. They were a nepo hire because they were friends or family of Condi Rice.
wampwampwhat 2 days ago [-]
any chance someone here works at ford and is willing to share the full spreadsheet? I need some inspiration
morkalork 2 days ago [-]
My spouse and I keep a running catalogue of these for fun. They're a great indicator of how tired and burnt out one another are. Recently there was "begruntle" for what I guess is begrudgingly doing something while disgruntled.
bitwize 6 hours ago [-]
My mom and sister both use "six to one, half a dozen to another". I use the actual form of the idiom, "six of one, half a dozen of the other" and my mom used to correct me. I guess I know why she said it wrong: imagine two people. And one says "It's six", and another says "no, it's half a dozen". They're both the same, they mean the same, but it's six to one (person), half a dozen to another (person).
That said, if I were going to start a Borg-themed band, Six of One would be a kick-ass name.
carabiner 6 hours ago [-]
We had a guy named Smith, and well we saved his sayings as Smithisms in a word doc.
lo_zamoyski 2 days ago [-]
Arguably, the frequency of malapropisms in the boardroom suggests economic mobility is taking place. The vernacular of those in the socioeconomic class that someone of a lower socioeconomic class aspires to join will be unfamiliar.
Clumsy expressions of socioeconomic aspirations go beyond language, of course. Take the infamously bad taste of the parvenu and the comical snobbery of the nouveau riche and those who ape them.
sollewitt 2 days ago [-]
Kinda like some HN posters write the way they think academics talk?
neves 1 days ago [-]
Best comment here, and even made me change my perspective. I have a work colleague that makes a lot of grammar mistakes. It annoys me but I'm wrong. Funny mistakes everyone makes, but we must be careful with our prejudices. Thanks.
(The transcription of the dialogue itself contains an error, to wit, the use of "penhead" instead of "pinhead".)
chris_wot 4 hours ago [-]
I once played a game of cards and it was dragging... and someone yelled out "a quick game is a fast game!"
FreebasingLLMs 2 days ago [-]
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djaouen 2 days ago [-]
I propose a solution to this problem: in meetings, make sure nobody speaks at all. Problem solved from your end, am I right???
danesparza 2 days ago [-]
And people wonder why American manufacturing (and Detroit in particular) has done so poorly for the past 50 years. It's starts at the top. Here is an incredibly candid (and depressing) example of this.
Perhaps if they paid attention this closely to market conditions and manufacturing innovations, Ford wouldn't have this embarrassing example of a corporate executive that is so out of touch.
meepmorp 2 days ago [-]
Holy shit, you're right - it does seem reasonable to see this one little story as a valid critique/indictment of US industrial policy!
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It started when we were in a meeting with an executive (who was a wonderful man) who -- due to nerves -- used the filler phrase "ya know" about twice a sentence -- like someone who's nervous might use the filler word "um" or "uh."
When the meeting was over, I'd joked that he'd said "ya know" three times in the same sentence and without missing a beat he said "541, I counted"[0]. He went on to explain that when someone repeats a word/phrase, especially if it's a word that's used "to sound intelligent", he can't help but count.
Incidentally, despite having no reason to be suspicious[1], I didn't believe him and being in an IT department with its share of folks with social anxiety and various forms of autism[2], it took all of a day before we were in another meeting with someone who, I think, pronounced "infeasible" as "in-THESE-able." A minor mistake, but he repeated it a solid thirty times and liked to really push that emphasis on the second syllable. We got out of the meeting and I asked for his number. "37"[0] he said. I was one off. It ended up becoming a weird sort of corporate meeting game that we did a few times a month over 17 years. It's a ridiculously easy habit to pick up, it turns out. I've been out of that job for years and I still do it. No real reason, any longer. I don't think less of people who don't have a solid command of public speaking -- as in, I'm not doing it for the purpose of feeling superior or being a d!ck and pointing it out to them. The only people that know I do this (other than readers of my comments on HN) are my kids and the guy who got me hooked.
[0] The exact number escapes me but it was a suspiciously random sounding number
[1] This guy marched to the beat of a different drummer. I have so many stories of outlandish claims he made that turned out to be absolutely true by this point that I should have taken him at his word. By this point he'd shown me a receipt indicating his bill was less than a dime for what must have been two carts worth of groceries (early 2000s), and it was only a dime because he bought something from the register to avoid a negative balance (a problem he's navigated in the past).
[2] Myself and (I suspect) my friend are diagnosed ASD as well.
Originally he'd take 2 minutes to get through his name and phone number on a voicemail, and a few months later you wouldn't even recognize him by how clear and concise he was.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FthRCwn1JuM?si=lC3eWAUI7sV-LL-r
A wearable speech coach would be awesome, though. Detect filler words and give you an alert on your HUD when it detects "uh" "uhm" etc.
Off the cuff I can picture some Australians taking it more nasally at the top of the palate sort of yee-ah (think Steve Irwin), a more neutral yeehr with a hint of final r (but more clipped and mono syllable than an American accent), or even a yair that might push as far as yuhhh (heading towards a sort of hybrid of Californian Valley Girl and the posh British accent used in American media).
Bit of an exploration of the evoking Australian accent here: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103321146
Funny enough, “ya know” was one of the main phrases. I hear that a lot from people in NJ, I’m curious if your co-worker was from NJ as well, or the general vicinity.
Ah, yes, the coupon cutters that would spend all of their free time trying to get a deal. But if they were happy doing it, then who am I to judge.
[0] In a lower-middle-class neighborhood.
I really want to check if it's drum or drummer, but will refrain and live in hope that it was a clever joke
[0](https://quillbot.com/grammar-check)
That hypercorrection is ghastly.
What other way could you pronounce it?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=0...
...unless you're saying he pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?
That’s how I read it
So we had 2 pots. The meaner pot was internal to our own team, where we would bet on both how many users would connect to the webserver before it crashed, and then what the other team would blame as the fault. It was always ~3200 and it was almost always RAM.
One of us would sit in on their publicity events, and present the other team with live readouts on hardware usage. The server had umpteen processors with eleventy Jigahertz, and all the RAM that could fit in the chassis (~128GB from memory). 3000 odd users would connect simultaneously, RAM usage would spike to 2%, processor usage would spike to 3% and the website would crash. We would cash in on their pot as to the number of successful simultaneous connections. Then we would go back to our team, and cash in on users AND whatever they were blaming.
After which our IT managers would have their monthly duel where ours would send them a quote to build a better website and they would send us a strongly worded email about how they felt the hardware was the bottleneck.
We printed up bingo cards filled with buzzwords, products, trends, things we thought the analysis might say, etc. We charged $15 per card, all of which was pooled and given to the charity of the winner's choice. When the CEO caught on, he started matching the donations.
There was a reverse version of this played too. We voted in Slack for some weird word or phrase that the CEO or CFO had to say during the earnings calls. They were super awkward and totally unrelated, and the goal was they had to weasel the phrase in somehow. It was pretty funny.
(For someone else in the know, without giving away the company, do you remember any of the wacky phrases?)
- updog
- stegosaurus
- brat
- flabbergasted
- superbowl
- crouton
On a somewhat-related note, my grandfather told me that while he was in Officer Candidate School in the Army, there would be someone assigned to ring a bell whenever a person who was leading a briefing or otherwise presenting faltered with an "oral pause" (uh, ummm, etc.) I don't know if this was a normal or ongoing practice.
I used to take notes and just try to capture the buzzword onslaught. Here's an old notepad cut-and-paste from a single 90 minute meeting this guy was in:
We should sidebar
I’ll call an audible and order lunch
So maybe we’ll put that into a live fire exercise
We’re elbow deep now
I’m starting to ladder into goals and tactics
Let’s explore this for a second so we can put it in the parking lot
Let’s take a bio-break
It’s not on the top of my want-to-do list
I want to get back to some more basic block and tackle
If you look at it as crawl, walk, run. I mean I hate that metaphor, but we’re transitioning from crawl to walk
I have some suggestions around merchandising homepage content
I’ve already done concepting
It’s analytics with icebreaking on the social side
I’ll type up outputs and share
We’re potentially opening the aperture on expert interviews
Out of this decision comes wayfinding for that decision
I’m looking for the exponential in this
Alright, I think we can land it
Brilliant.
A woman I worked with long ago was trying to tell her boss that something was "a whole new ballgame" but came out with "whole new ballpark." The boss didn't pick up on it, but after work she mentioned it to her husband, and "a whole new ballroom" became a family catchphrase.
Update we kept our practice a secret though, it wasn’t nice to point these things out to people.
A copy of the list ended with us, the family, and has come up during my grandfather's wake and a few times since then.
Absolutely agree that it might not be nice, but context depending it absolutely can be -- as well as a really touching legacy.
"All the sudden"?
Seems weird for the WSJ.
A tough conversation followed.
That was one of my favorite groups of co-workers. Miss that crew!
This makes me question Ford’s corporate effectiveness, and therefore their cars…
But alas! Nope.
Let David Mitchell explain, in a totally non sarcastic way https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
That said, if I were going to start a Borg-themed band, Six of One would be a kick-ass name.
Clumsy expressions of socioeconomic aspirations go beyond language, of course. Take the infamously bad taste of the parvenu and the comical snobbery of the nouveau riche and those who ape them.
(The transcription of the dialogue itself contains an error, to wit, the use of "penhead" instead of "pinhead".)
Perhaps if they paid attention this closely to market conditions and manufacturing innovations, Ford wouldn't have this embarrassing example of a corporate executive that is so out of touch.