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I've actually heard people verbally use the word "doubleclick" to mean explore. For example, someone in a meeting might mention some idea. Then my colleague wou
by Thorrez 6y ago
I've actually heard people verbally use the word "doubleclick" to mean explore. For example, someone in a meeting might mention some idea. Then my colleague would say "let's doubleclick on that for a minute".
- toomanybeersies 6y agoI'm going to start using that in my meetings, alongside "drill down", "circle back", and "take it offline". Office Space became a lot less funny when I started living it.
- prox 6y agoLooks like someone has a case of the mondays ;)
- mauvehaus 6y agoMy person pet peeve jargon is people who use surface in sentences like "what ideas does this surface?" Unless you're a submarine, surface isn't a verb!
- Thorrez 6y agoThat's pretty common, there are 53,000 results for "surfaced a problem": https://www.google.com/search?q="surfaced+a+problem" https://www.google.com/search?q="surfaced+a+problem"
- tuxxy 6y agoWow, that's truly awful.
- jdbernard 6y agoIt gets worse. Where I am people use "doubleclick" and "tripleclick" as nouns to represent specific levels of detail. As in, "I think we've got a good story for the doubleclick but I want to hear more about the tripleclick on Topic X."