Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

Well the good news is that it'll probably pass soon enough.

New to me, too. I'm going to test it to see if I can annoy #goals

"it's worth pointing out" please stop

xp idk if it's the oline in particular, although they haven't exactly shone. eagles have blitzed well and pass def should be the thing they do best. but NE also made it too easy for them by dropping back to pass too often.

rong thread obv

When an obviously planned performance/interview is described as someone "stopping by" ("Lianne La Havas stopped by the NPR Music offices to play two new songs — "What You Don't Do" and "Unstoppable" — as well as "Forget," from her first album, at the Tiny Desk.") I'm sure that was cutesy the first few times but it's so grating now.

on point

"sunsetting" - corporate speak for retiring logos, mission statements, etc.

I would like to sunset people every time they uses this phrase.

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term. "Stopped by" is so forced folksy. "Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stieglitz stopped by the studio, you know, to just shoot the shit about his studies calling into question the efficient market hypothesis. We happened to have our lil old tape machine running, give it a listen."

It is kind of annoying--though sometimes it's preferable to the claim that "(Band) played an in-studio concert for us" when its just the singer and guitarist doing an acoustic set of two songs with the interns hooting in the background.

If you're being interviewed, you're probably really busy. they are literally "stopping by to chat". Somebody kill me.

"long reads"

aren't these just called articles. or essays

long articles

longticles

it's just a way for people to low-key humblebrag. by posting "great longread in ____ on _____" on twitter you're subtly saying "look at me, i can read more than 1000 words at once"

"this link might not be for everyone. there are a LOT of words in it. but for those of you who are smart like me..."

i saw a "best longreads of 2015" link on twitter today

i can read more than 1000 words at once

huh at most I can read maybe a dozen words at once

imho ymmv there are ppl who like reading longform non-fiction and for them the neologism has some value in terms of locating more things to read (nb i sub to 2 ilx longform threads)

what is long-form

how is it different than an essay or an investigative piece or

long articles?

Ugh can someone concise mordys post 4me pls

or any new yorker article

there's a website that specializes in these: http://longform.org nb they probably should've just called themselves essays.org

yes i understand that the term has some currency

i find it a useful term to lump in all narrative, investigatory, or literary nonfiction articles that are over a certain length - i.e. the kind of stuff lots of people, including myself, want to read.

admit that there's something aesthetically displeasing about the term

there's also longreads dot com which popularized the word i think
i use it as a way to get my reading-averse students interested in reading

Just got out of a meeting, maybe this belongs on some business jargon thread, but "client-facing." As in, " Please don't include the Search Channel Specialists on client-facing emails." This started popping up frequently in the past few weeks, is it a buzz word now?

-facing is a common usage these days (outward-facing = public? vs internal i guess)
idk

jargon is disgusting

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When the tedium is intense, business jargon can inject some brief excitement into the day. embracing it with real enthusiasm is a sign of desperation.

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

― kinder, Monday, December 14, 2015 1:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term.

I meant the phrasing 'the X singer' where X is literally any song they have released; I really hate it and it's everywhere

Alternative to client-facing?

emails that may be seen by clients?

as I sit here at my desk I am (roughly) facing the north pole. while it would be accurate to call me a north-pole-facing ilxor, this seems to say something more than it does.

what's a search channel specialist?

Client-facing is useful b/c it succinctly describes a lot of different things that are intended for, likely to be used by clients, as well as positions that involve directly interacting with clients.

It's a neologism but that doesn't mean it's bad, and it's not even jargon, IMO.

I guess "client-side" preceded "client-facing," but the latter isn't any worse.

"raise awareness", "provide support"

basically all modern uses of "support" as some vast vague sea in which the concept of "help" is drowning

that's my job man :/

I mean yeah you are right these thoughts have occured

yeah it's not the delivery of it or its existence - more like... why can't we explain it more clearly?

sometimes weak laws or legal blind spots lead to weak language though, so perhaps i'm blaming the victim...

(sorry if i seemed dismissive - i'm coming at it from the side of helping people also!)

nah it doesn't seem dismissive I have had literally the same thoughts

also I have to explain to people quite often what "support" isn't i.e. magical bypassing of somebody's actual abilities

i guess it feels like an inevitable failure when the state tries to find a universal language to talk about helping very individual problems

what's a search channel specialist?

Where I work it's support for search engine marketing campaigns.

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