Comments on: Top Ten Irritating Phrases

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:04 +0000

Have to agree with “going forward” as posted above. What the h#ll else are we going to do? “Go backward”??? Other peeves:
1) Synthesizing new verbs simply by adding the -ize suffix, e.g. “incentivize”.
2) In the past year or so the growing incidence of “authentic” when used to refer to individuals. e.g. “Our company is staffed by authentic employees.”

By: BBRMarketing (Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk)

BBRMarketing (Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:52:16 +0000

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By: Aminul Islam Sajib

Aminul Islam Sajib — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:05:02 +0000

Being a non-native English writer, I feel trouble writing English. I don’t see any problem in these phrases (Except the truly global one).
I wish I could be a native English speaker.

By: Tom Wahl

Tom Wahl — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:37:26 +0000

I have posted this link to my Business Writing students at University of MD, University College. Great list. However, I would add: “I’m just saying” and “my bad.”

By: holly

holly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:27:44 +0000

I can’t stand “no problem”

You’re doing your job, it should never be a problem to do that

By: MIke

MIke — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:52:53 +0000

I hate “FYI” !!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:07:15 +0000

Agree with Melina…”It is what it is…”
I suspect this masks “I don’t know what it is.”

By: Mary Cullen

Mary Cullen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:29:06 +0000

Keldorn,
It’s important to incorporate all discussion, of course, but it can get cluttered with simple retweets.

I’m going to research solutions to separate the Twitter comments (many of which add helpful insights) from direct blog comments. I agree with you that they can clutter direct comments.

Thanks for the feedback.

By: Keldorn

Keldorn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:53:36 +0000

Those twitter comments are annoying. They add nothing constructive or useful to the comments.

By: Melina

Melina — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:41:25 +0000

The one that’s currently setting my teeth on edge is:

“It is what it is.”