Transition. A passing or passagefrom one condition, action or (rarely)place, to another;change.
That's what it meant in my 1955 Oxford Universal Dictionary(with my name in gilt on the spine!)
When,oh when, did this word become a verb meaning "to move from one place to another"?
i mean, you can transfer, transport, transmit,transmigrate, i don't feel like typing the rest of the page. Why must we "transition"??
That's what it meant in my 1955 Oxford Universal Dictionary(with my name in gilt on the spine!)
When,oh when, did this word become a verb meaning "to move from one place to another"?
i mean, you can transfer, transport, transmit,transmigrate, i don't feel like typing the rest of the page. Why must we "transition"??
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Re: verbiage
Tue, March 23, 2004 - 11:55 PMI've heard it a lot for moving from one job to another. Where have you heard it for physical movement?
One usage that bugs me is "transfer" meaning taking you between airport and hotel as part of a deal. -
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Wed, March 24, 2004 - 6:52 AM"We will now transition into the next room for tea and cookies"
I suppose the "transfer" is what you give the driver to "transport" you to the hotel. -
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Re: verbiage
Wed, March 24, 2004 - 7:50 AMCorporatespeke has a nasty habit of verbing nouns when perfectly good verbs already exist, and I'm fairly sure it's the result of both an insufficient vocabulary and a lack of knowledge of how to transform parts of speech. Outcome: people trying to sound professional and instead coming across as ignorant. I kind of like it, as it makes the morons and automatons that much easier to spot. -
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Re: verbiage
Wed, March 24, 2004 - 7:54 AMYeah, i figure the more syllables used the more pretentious and ridiculous the statement!
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Re: verbiage
Wed, March 24, 2004 - 11:23 AMyeah, baby
I just got out of my company's quarterly finance meeting. My ears are rining with meaningless jargon and made up words.
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Wed, March 24, 2004 - 3:06 PM>nasty habit of verbing nouns when perfectly good verbs already exist
I think it's the desire to appear as if some action is actually happening, among people who mostly attend meetings, shuffle documents, and wait. -
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Re: verbiage
Wed, March 24, 2004 - 4:50 PMYou just described my day. Do you work here too? -
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Re: verbiage
Tue, May 18, 2004 - 9:20 PMBehold!
The Web Economy Bullshit Generator comes to the rescue!
Stand by to "repurpose real-time niches"--
www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html -
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Re: verbiage
Fri, May 21, 2004 - 5:04 PMAnd for someone who keep spewing said bullshit, start discussion of repurposing their rectum. -
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Re: verbiage
Wed, October 13, 2004 - 7:39 AMYesterday i caught a Librarian saying "while we transition between systems.
I told her i was aghast.
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