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One of my least favourite corporate terms is "dogfooding" from "Eating your own dog food"

Uh... "reinventing the wheel"... we have a similar one in Spanish: "inventarse el agua tibia" (to invent warm water)...

Speaking of slaughter... I recently came across the name Henry Sloughter, the New York governor who put down the Leisler's Rebellion, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out of that name is just a variant spelling of slaughter (we are talking 17th century here, so spellings are still not always very consistent) and pronounced the same way, or if it is a completely different word with a different pronunciation. Or a different word with the same pronunciation. It's very annoying to come across such slight variations in spelling and have no clue what's up with it.

Every time linkedin says I'm one of the few experts on this topic or that, and please answer this question, I find myself scratching my head given the topic it puts into the message is something I not only have no expertise on at all, but it's not even listed anywhere on my linkedin profile. They are clearly just filling in words at random hoping they eventually get one that makes sense for you. But after the hundredth time you've gotten one of those nonsensical requests, I wouldn't even bother to respond if they did give me one that actually made sense for me, since I understand now what they are doing.

So, when I was little, my mom and my dad used to speak to one another in what they called "el idioma de la p" (the P language), which is the kind of "jerigonza" Rob spoke about. They stopped when I was able to figure it out, and began understanding them (and was able to "crack the code" to speak with it myself). However, I haven't heard anyone talk like that since I was a kid, besides my siblings and I sometimes. I'm not from Spain though, I'm from Ecuador...

Or "least" or "stale" of the many words spelled with just those five letters.

What the public is calling AI these days isn't AI at all, it's just an over-glorified autofill. Since it's just filling in words based on statistically what is the next most probable word in a chain, with a smidge of randomness thrown in to keep it interesting, it ought to have really good grammar.

Whoever is Jack, you don't know him.

It's so frustrating. With each successive episode I have to adjust to a new favorite episode (which is why I refrain and resist in all things the very notion of rankings and favorites because they can be simultaneously equal and multiple, and changing from moment to moment!)

I would think pawns are "pledged" because conscripted soldiers pledged their service to the king.

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The two that irritate me the most are the current uses of inform and concerning. Inform used to mean tell. “ I will inform the chairman of you choice”. The word has been trans formed into something to do with creating part of a plan. “ the Bible informed their politics.” Concerning used to mean about, as in “ concerning your letter of July 4th…. “ . Now it is being used as a replacement for a cause of worry. Finally beware anyone who links the words life and style into a single word , it is always someone trying to sell you something, without exception.

8:31 a perfect example of how these games received different names by mispronouncing them. Well done!

Innuendo is Italian word for suppository,

Leverage is also financial jargon for the amount you borrow to buy another company, especially if it had been cross-borrowed and amortized to the hilt.

Pochen to do with bragging coming to mean poking has invariably something to do with penises. One might brag by poking, and the codpieces of the era, a brag veritably, and a poke literally. Source: me, after having met and played poker with men.

Swag is also an acronym for “Stuff We All Get”

Simon Peter, aka Saint Peter, was the first leader of the Church and is considered the first Pope. So it tracks.

In 1984 I had a job editing and writing for a large government natural resources report. I think even back then I had to replace "impact" about 40 times. There was also an odd turn-around popular then, like "bodies of water" were "water bodies" and "fur-bearing animals" were "fur-bears". Not to mention "resort-o-miniums"!

I never wrote it out or said it out loud, but for the longest time i thought that "in no shape or form" was "in no shay perform". Did i know what shay/che was? No, but it sounded cool i guess.

pls dont do the grudge voice. why women do that I dont get.

My management lecturer said, 'Eschew words like 'eschew' '. You never know who's in the audience. If you use a lot of jargon, you don't stand a chance of getting your message across to everyone.

I think your wrong about wave. Wave and wave are alike. Also Poop has been associated with the ships stern more than it 's bow. Also think of leaves and wind and trees how all three sound like a forest.

Did you see Jess' eyes bug out at the mention of mushrooms? She is so cute! I thought the mushroom was named after Portobello road. I think of toadstools as poisonous for some reason.

A total game-changer.

The verb leaveraging is originally a technical term in finance.

The jargon phrase that irritates me is any version of, "In today's world" or "In the world today". That phrase has no meaning. It's intended to make the listener come up with something in their world that's bad. That's why when I hear it I know I'm being sold on something.

Hedge was originally used to mean spikes so hedgehog becomes a bit cleaner…hedge," originally any fence, living or artificial. PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce." ...

Found another spelling error..."dusrupt" 😁

The worst sports jargon : "He left his feet" Whaaat?!

I once got a really bad case of influenza on my way to a conference in Boston. Two weeks later I read a story about a huge flu epidemic in Massachusetts. Does this make me an influenzer?

For a moment I thought I was still at work.

There's nothing wrong with language being overused. Every sixth word in English is "the", and nobody crusades against the definite article. It's the lazy overuse combined with self-important pretence that really does it.

LOL as usual :-) I love these videos! Cool facts and loads of information all rolled into one Tankard of entertainment ! ( Or should I say cask!? ) Great stuff guys ! ...But you forgot to mention Mead ! This drink brewed by the Vikings 1000 years ago here in Sweden and called nowadays : Mjöd ) I do believe this word has remained more or less unchanged from the old Norse/ Icelandic Viking language. ( The Ö is an er sound as Rob well knows ! ) Keep em coming.

The truck that ran me over has had significant impact on my cadaver.

Some card games have you knock on the table to signal you think you have a winning hand

Correct me if I'm wrong, but honorificabilitudinitatibus would be a hapax legomenon and not a nonce-word since it was not coined specifically for that text, right? The distinction is a little misty to me... Loved the video!

I believe stakeholder could be someone to whom "something is at stake"?

I heard something similar to jerigonza back in the 1960s. In Danissh, that is. Det er fordi jeg er glad = Depper erper forperdipper japper erper glapper - mind you the T in "Det", the G in "jeg" and the R in "er" and "fordi" are not pronounced.

Until now I had never thought about this word, I didn't know that there's the Spanish word jerigonza. In Portuguese we have the word "geringonça" that means "gadget" but as a kind of derogatory term for a device meant to be of a low quality one

Tip, a shortening of "tip of the hat"?

For me, “ vertical” has always meant, “giving ourselves permission to assert that this next item is germane to the present one, let’s jump to the next totally different item.”

Sanskrit has a word for blue extensively used in the vedas too...Its Neela..or just Neel

Surely imagination is something only humans have and that distinguishes us from animals

i'd thought that buckminster fuiller invented the word synergy

If FYI is jargon, what are n.b., e.g. and i.e.?

I heard it was the gypsy word for half. And if you had a posh crown, you were in the money or well off.

Using "impact" as a transitive verb is particularly common in areas where "affect" and "effect" are pronounced the same way, because then people can never remember which one they want, and in writing they don't want to get it wrong. The George Carlin quote gets even worse when you think a little harder about which meaning of the word "average" it must be using. It's literally true by definition, and also a meaningless statement, if you take "average" to mean the median; but that's pretty much never what anyone means by the word "average". Usually it either means "typical" or else the arithmetic mean; and in this context, "average person" would usually be expected to mean a typical person, but "average intelligence" would almost certainly mean the arithmetic mean. And if so, its' a very dark understatement, because the average person's intelligence is *considerably* lower than average intelligence. (Intelligence is similar to money in this regard: 20% of the population possesses 80% of the assets. There are a relative handful of astonishingly intelligent people, and you have to be significantly smarter than the average person just to realize how much smarter than you, those terrifyingly smart people are.) I believe "ping" originated as onomatopoeia that became military jargon (related to sonar) and was borrowed from there as the name of a computer network diagnostic utility that generates a series of echo-request packets in order to test whether there is bidirectional connectivity between two computer systems; this utility, like a lot of Unix commands, became a transitive verb in information-technology circles, and I think the corporate usage is derived from that. I was not aware that FYI was corporate jargon. It's a term that I picked up as a young child, in the seventies, when I was not really aware of the existence of large corporations, much less of their culture, and until now I had never really thought about how it entered the lexicon. I mean, I knew the etymology in the sense that I knew what it *stands* for, but that's not the same thing as knowing who started using it first. I do know that it's reasonably old, because within my lifetime there has never been any noticeable generational divide in terms of how frequently it is used; ergo, its widespread adoption in mainstream English must go back at least to the Greatest Generation, if not earlier. Historically, in microeconomics, "vertical" expansion was when the various divisions of a single company formed a chain, each one producing a product that was needed by the next. So for example the same company might run a coal mine, a steel mill that uses coal from the mine, a shipyard that uses steel from the mill, and a shipping company that uses the ships built by the yard. Whereas, if the same company buys up a dozen steel mills scattered all across the country, that's horizontal expansion. It's not about what industry you're in; it's about the relationship between the various divisions of your business, or between the various smaller businesses that your company buys up.

I'm looking forward to Jess ranting.

"Launched" a business, eh?