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"Passionate" about "Going forwards"

dnme · 2009-11-15 20:22:20

Have you noticed this expression "Going forwards" creeping in all over the political and corporate spin doctors verbal diarrhea... "Our business model going forward is core to our strategy". It's all padding, using words where none are necessary to shorten the time spent saying stuff that might mean something. Using the…

15-11-2009 8:22pm

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Have you noticed this expression "Going forwards" creeping in all over the political and corporate spin doctors verbal diarrhea...

"Our business model going forward is core to our strategy".

It's all padding, using words where none are necessary to shorten the time spent saying stuff that might mean something. Using the expression "going forward" is redundant anyway as it implies that there is an alternative = "going backwards". Have these tossers got a time machine?

And another thing.....everyone is "passionate" about everything these days...WTF ???

"I'm passionate about software"
"I'm passionate about advertising"

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#2 15-11-2009 8:32pm

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Try the Ranting and Raving forum.

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