Last night, I heard about a horrible case of English abuse at the corporate headquarters of a large retail clothing outlet.
There the corporate-speakers refer to the points raised and the conclusions reached at various meetings as learnings!My friend, who has worked there for years, always thought this improper usage a bit grating, but was so used
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But "meritocracy" is widely used in corporations, and I do think it's a real word. A good meeting (at least at my level) concludes with a list of "action items". Sensible enough.
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"Action items" sounds frighteningly close to "actionable items", a term used in law to define things that happened that can form the basis of a lawsuit. Of course, maybe that was the intention. . . .
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"Consistence above everything."
Unfortunately, it spreads into "make errors consistently", which means that if there's a bug with our code, then it's almost better to keep reproducing it than to fix it--if the bug happens consistently. Makes it hard to work on new features, especially since 1/2 the time must be spent checking widths and heights and colors and fonts etc...
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