Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Richard Tarleton]

Everyone's a curator these days. Just heard the controller of radio 1 telling Steve Hewlett that the difference between Radio 1 and Spotify "is curation"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's no such word as "can't".

[mangerton]

I have just received a "Communications Brief"...............(1)

It contains the phrases "Customer Journey" .................(2)

and "key deliverable"...................................... ..........(3)


1. It wasn't brief; it was absurdly long.
2. They're not, and it isn't.
3. Words fail me at this point.

[Serial_Apologist]

Everyone's a curator these days. Just heard the controller of radio 1 telling Steve Hewlett that the difference between Radio 1 and Spotify "is curation"

Or, as GW Bush might say, "Preventation is better than curation".

A jazz musician friend, asked what he considered his place in the music to be, replied, "I am a creator, not a curator".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or, as GW Bush might say, "Preventation is better than curation".

A jazz musician friend, asked what he considered his place in the music to be, replied, "I am a creator, not a curator".

Great response!

[teamsaint]

I have just received a "Communications Brief"...............(1)

It contains the phrases "Customer Journey" .................(2)

and "key deliverable"...................................... ..........(3)



1. It wasn't brief; it was absurdly long.
2. They're not, and it isn't.
3. Words fail me at this point.

"I feel your pain".

back in the day, messages of this type were sent out on paper, and screwed up they made excellent balls for office cricket.
Quite why office cricket wasn't in the olympics is unclear to me.
Its a marvellous, inclusive sport.

[marthe]

I've been hearing "curator" and and "curated" over here as well, and for beyond the world of museums and collections where that word belongs. "Well presented" and "well curated" seem to be phrases of the day. I have not yet heard "curation," though if GWB used the word it must be out there somewhere...

[mangerton]

"I feel your pain".

back in the day, messages of this type were sent out on paper, and screwed up they made excellent balls for office cricket.
Quite why office cricket wasn't in the olympics is unclear to me.
Its a marvellous, inclusive sport.

That has quite cheered me up.

[John Wright]

Impressed with Phil Neville as a "pundit" though.

Sainty,

Don't you mean his brother Gary?

[teamsaint]

Sainty,

Don't you mean his brother Gary?

No.Phil did a spot or two on MOTD, and was a breath of fresh air among ..well just a breath of fresh air. Astute, cliche free, to the point.
Gary is by common consent excellent, so Phil has some catching up to do.
I also like Lee Dixon.
In fact I like pundits who tell me things I don't know, which is those three basically.
Don't mind Gareth Southgate, but don't learn much from him.
Shearer, I am sad to say as one who saw his hat trick league debut (and many more), is quite quite useless.


Edit: John, perhaps one of the Nevilles could explain what is going on at CCFC........

[John Wright]

I am sick of football pundit Andy Townsend, every time a striker runs with the ball into his opponent's half Townsend says ... he's asking questions of the defence

aaaaaaaarrrrggghhh Townsend just said it during the Brazil vs England game , about the 80 min mark...

[french frank]

Two things just read on the BBC news site:

To name something for, rather than name it after something else. Common Americanism that was always noticeable but accepted as common parlance 'over there' - like many others. Has it now become the accepted usage 'over here'?

To hove into view/sight. I suspect we have a tendency to rearrange the construction so that we don't use the present tense - 'he hove into view' (past tense), but "Next time an enticing-looking cake shop hoves into view..." Or is that just another American usage that we're in the process of adopting?

[mangerton]

Two things just read on the BBC news site:

To name something for, rather than name it after something else. Common Americanism that was always noticeable but accepted as common parlance 'over there' - like many others. Has it now become the accepted usage 'over here'?

To hove into view/sight. I suspect we have a tendency to rearrange the construction so that we don't use the present tense - 'he hove into view' (past tense), but "Next time an enticing-looking cake shop hoves into view..." Or is that just another American usage that we're in the process of adopting?

I expect so. What's wrong with "heaves" into view? This Americanisation of our language is happening all the time. Here are two more examples:

Things happen on the weekend, rather than at.

Shots rather than strokes when discussing golf scores.

[french frank]

What's wrong with "heaves" into view?

Nothing. 'Hoves into view' is the equivalent of saying 'I once taughts French.'

[jean]

Nothing...

Except that heaves into view doesn't correspond to any modern sense of heave.

It's always transitive, for a start.