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Re: pic: Districts in Minnesota Flyer
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In a tweet, I said that this was, and I quote (without the emojis) "grade A bull crap". While this might seem slightly extreme, I stand by this, for a number of reasons:
The word 'transition' has been used as a verb since at least 1946.
'Transition' is commonly used as a verb. While it isn't the clearest word in this situation, it also isn't a word that ...
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LOLs - Apparently I've been tweeted about in an out-of-band channel. - It's a good thing there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Hey, people were mangling English long before 1946, and they ain't likely to slow down any time soon.
If the folks reusing the flyer want to improve it, I still suggest adopting Churchill's approach. He was really good at communicating.
It is possible for one post to contain an important big picture observation, and a separate recommendation to improve that sentence.
Blake
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Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
Last edited by gblake : 11-04-2016 at 20:01.
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