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Grammar Guy: Fight the trend of using nouns, such as 'Skype' and 'Google', as verbs
Savannah Morning News ^ | November 21, 2021 | Curtis Honeycutt

Posted on 12/11/2021 7:38:03 AM PST by DoodleBob

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To: lee martell
“We sell Quality products”,

Bad is a quality ...

A fairly recent thing in management jargon is "velocity".

Zero is a velocity. A velocity can be negative. In the case of "best practices" fad driven management, "velocity" in the wrong direction isn't uncommon.

101 posted on 08/23/2025 3:22:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Somewhere in the mid 1990s, it suddenly became acceptable, even expected to misuse the term “Quality” ,as in
“We only work with quality manufacturers!”.
I’m not a trained editor, but I instantly saw this as a misuse of that adjective.
Nobody seemed to notice or care about it except for me. Another one was saying

“Preven-ta-tive” instead of “Preventive”.
Again, nobody seemed to care about it but me.
It’s not a hill I plan to die on, but I still find the misuse somewhat disturbing.


102 posted on 08/23/2025 3:58:58 PM PDT by lee martell
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