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Words I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from common use: "Disrupt", "Hack", "Stakeholders"
by Fomite 13y ago
Words I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from common use: "Disrupt", "Hack", "Stakeholders"
- cylinder 13y agoNor would I, but I also wouldn't mind seeing Slate and The Atlantic vanish from the internet.
- gavinlynch 13y ago"space" is also a great adjunct next to "disrupt" that needs to be destroyed. How about I "disrupt" the "space" next to your "face". !
- toomuchtodo 13y agoMinor quibble: I think stakeholders is a fairly important word, albeit overused. I have company X. I want to describe something that matters to the founders, the shareholders, the employees, and the clients. All of these people are stakeholders. In the greater sense, stakeholders refers to the people affected by what you're doing, and isn't that what we're all doing every day? Ask yourself: What am I doing today, and for whom? Everyone is a stakeholder in something. </soapbox>
- TeMPOraL 13y agoSo instead of "stakeholders" let's just say "people who care" (about X).
- bostonpete 13y agoI agree. This idea is double plus good.
- Fomite 13y agoOr, and stay with me for this one, define who those people are. ;)
- michalu 13y agoReplace 1 word with 3? That is not a good pattern.
- tedsanders 13y agoAgreed. It's interesting how words carry connotation and how those connotations affect the mematic propagation of those words. There's a lot of signalling and culture and counterculture embodied in our style choices, including word choices.