RE: I just heard another one

Subject: RE: I just heard another one
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:12:12 -0500

> Yesterday, we were talking about the verbing of nouns. Well, I just
came
> from a training session in which the instructor said, "Our goal is to
> get everybody on this system, so that down the road, we can use it for
> career pathing." Come. On. Now. (Use of initial caps for emphasis.)

That's how many people -- and lots of MBAs -- seem to talk these days.
Here's another for you: "Efforting." As in, "I'm currently efforting
that project through Marketing." I kid you not.

Craig

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