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To: Sirius Lee
the use of "decision" as a verb

The list of bastardized nouns is endless. To "impact" is jarring, for instance, and "impactful" is idiotic.

This kind of nonsense comes from bureaucrats who are at once tyrannical and terrified. Some white male university president, if there is one left, would use "decision" as a verb because to say "I decided" smacks of privilege.

To "decision" something blurs the subject AND the action.

No one really knows who made the call, and whatever was "decisioned" is now locked within impenetrable new walls.

107 posted on 01/19/2018 9:11:38 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

“and “impactful” is idiotic.”

Hannity just used that on the radio. For just an instant I wanted to drive into an abutment.


155 posted on 01/19/2018 12:44:56 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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