Make this man a Mod. Like NOW!!!!!

Snickers Man

As those who police our toing and froing on this board develop an aversion to those who prefer good grammar to abominations such as "I should have went" and "I seen.." and threaten to hand out infractions for sneering at other poster's poor means of expression, allow me to introduce a politician who is proud to be a "Grammar Fascist!"

Alan Duncan, British minister of state at the Department for International Development, has issued a memo demanding that his staff refrain in their internal communications from using jargon terms like "Going forward" and verbs like "To Mainstream" and "To Leverage" and that all written material should be grammatically correct with some attention being paid to a plain style of expression.

Sounds like the sort of person we need here.

Duggy747

Good idea, let's run it up a flagpole and see who salutes it.

That's some blue sky thinking, right there.

keith16

"going forward" is not jargon. Just bullsh1t.

TeddyTedson

Im actually an undercover mod would you believe...

floggg

He sounds like a dickhead

juan.kerr

Is '****ehawkery' a valid expression?

FatherLen

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Im actually an undercover mod would you believe...

i would not.

keith16

juan.kerr wrote: »

Is '****ehawkery' a valid expression?

Yes. Fourstarehawkery is fine.

AnonoBoy

"Revert back to me on this would you?"

GAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

brummytom

Alan Duncan's the short gay one, right?


Always came across as a pompous little prick.

Mr Benevolent

'Reach out' - ugh. Why not say 'contact'?

humbert

Seems entirely reasonable.

Though, given the choice, I'd prefer it if he paid a hit squad to mercilessly hunt down anyone who uses those phrases.

smash

I bet he has some great blue sky ideas about how to promote synergies...

Valetta

humbert wrote: »

Seems entirely reasonable.

Though, given the choice, I'd prefer it if he paid a hit squad to mercilessly hunt down anyone who uses those phrases.

I seen that earlier.

Their must be something more to this.

TeddyTedson

FatherLen wrote: »

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Im actually an undercover mod would you believe...

i would not.

Just, just....just feck off!

Plazaman

Make this man a Mod. Like NOW!!!!!

This is Boards not Facebook. We 'Thank' posts here not 'Like' them. And don't tell me what to do (although I did read it as 'Lick' and may have jumped the gun).

Mr Benevolent

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Just, just....just feck off!

Come on now Teddy, we all know you're the Irish version of brummytom.

Chuck Stone

I avoid clichés like the plague.

--Kaiser--

Well done that man

A Primal Nut

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--Kaiser--

I'd like to add that anyone, anywhere that ever uses the word 'revert' as 'reply' should be shot from a cannon into the sun

later12

give him a break; he's just trying to encourage some joined up thinking.

Fromthetrees

At the end of the day, when all is said and done,
this man has an ax to grind about getting all his ducks in a row,
we go through the motions and always look on the bright side and in due time all's well that ends well going forward.

yeppydeppy

Irregardless of what you all think - I think its a perfectly cromulent idea.

pickarooney

Confab wrote: »

'Reach out' - ugh. Why not say 'contact'?

Making verbs out of nouns is banned, you see.

TPD

My boss isn't too bad for business phrases. One he is fond of however is 'suck it and see'. I'm sure it's referring to some candy with a mysterious centre filling, but still..

BBDBB

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Just, just....just feck off!

he might if you said it in bold type

TeddyTedson

Confab wrote: »

Come on now Teddy, we all know you're the Irish version of brummytom.

elaborate or withdraw!

CrazyRabbit

He should create an action plan to put some focus on his idea and to see what the dollar value of it would be. I'd recommend a DMAIC cycle to ensure continued improvement in the target areas. He should also implement a RAG (Red, Amber, Green) status check for any actions assigned to this project so that the end goal can be achieved within the agreed timeframe.

Dangerous Man

I have a colleague at work who is a smarmy little brown-nosing piece of shit. He constantly uses this type of jargon / corporate speak because he believes that it makes whatever waffle he ejaculates from his word hole more important.

He'll say stuff like 'we can leverage that material going forward.' I lost patience with him one day and said 'can you not just say 'use?' That's what you mean, right? 'Use?'"

Dickhead.

mconigol

British minister of state at the Department for International Development

Glad to see the Brits are keeping up the old international development strategies.

"Make everyone speak the Queen's English!"

BlueSmoker

Out of curiosity dose he correct English Essays as well. If so I'm game to have him as a mod, if everyone else is.

goose2005

Confab wrote: »

'Reach out' - ugh. Why not say 'contact'?

"CONTACT AND TOUCH FAITH"

No, it doesn't really fit the rhythm

couldntthink

Snickers Man wrote: »

As those who police our toing and froing on this board develop an aversion to those who prefer good grammar to abominations such as "I should have went" and "I seen.." and threaten to hand out infractions for sneering at other poster's poor means of expression, allow me to introduce a politician who is proud to be a "Grammar Fascist!"

Alan Duncan, British minister of state at the Department for International Development, has issued a memo demanding that his staff refrain in their internal communications from using jargon terms like "Going forward" and verbs like "To Mainstream" and "To Leverage" and that all written material should be grammatically correct with some attention being paid to a plain style of expression.

Sounds like the sort of person we need here.

What about punctuation, smart ass?

The King of Moo

While I despise most business speak, I at least understand what most of it means.

But I've never understood why people say "going forward."
It always seems unnecessary. Superfluous even. I guess what I mean to say is, the sentence would still make sense without.
It simply seems to mean "going forward in time," unless I'm missing something.
I've always taken our forward motion through time for granted.

BlueSmoker

The King of Moo wrote: »

While I despise most business speak, I at least understand what most of it means.

But I've never understood why people say "going forward."
It always seems unnecessary. Superfluous even. I guess what I mean to say is, the sentence would still make sense without.
It simply seems to mean "going forward in time," unless I'm missing something.
I've always taken our forward motion through time for granted.

Maybe we could move forward from this and allow the guy be a mod, then we can see where it takes us from there, thinking about it I can only see positive things happening from this. (chat like that like )

Snickers Man

couldntthink wrote: »

What about punctuation, smart ass?

Thanks for reaching out with feedback. I'll action that and revert to you ASAP.

kowloon

The King of Moo wrote: »

While I despise most business speak, I at least understand what most of it means.

But I've never understood why people say "going forward."
It always seems unnecessary. Superfluous even. I guess what I mean to say is, the sentence would still make sense without.
It simply seems to mean "going forward in time," unless I'm missing something.
I've always taken our forward motion through time for granted.

Some of us have evolved to a higher plane of existence. Linear time, How quaint .