Wednesday, November 26, 2008

You what?

I thought I would share a couple of moments of work place insanity I have experienced in the last week or two where senior colleagues have almost gone out of their way to mangle the english language. Today we had the word 'solution' used as a verb:

"Can you solution this issue?"

Maybe I'm being old fashioned, but I'm still quite a fan of the word 'solve' and even 'fix'. Also, I did wonder for a second whether they were actually referring to a 'topical solution' - as in can you apply a topical solution - but then that doesn't make sense either.

The other classic one was when one of our HR people said "I haven't got an optic on that." What? I think you mean - I haven't seen that.

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