I'll "Reach out". You gonna give them your arms or what. Dang it, just say "contact".

I think another stooooop phrase I hear a lot is "LET'S GO"...........Where ya going?

The "reach out" stuff seems to have started as a regional expression. I heard it repeatedly beginning in the 1990s on the TV series NYPD Blue so I'm wondering if it has its origin with police in that region.

Just as long as they don't start saying "reach around"

Seen where I work:

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Saw many of my favorites, but not this one....

Metrics

I think it means when management finds stats to lie to us again. The old saying is liars figure and figures can lie.

At the end of the day, it is what it is.

Let's add this new fad of "speaking to" things.

We speak to one another. We speak to our pets. Some of us speak to our plants.

I have yet to "speak to that issue," or "speak to the problem at hand" or other such goofiness.

I do some software development at my work. The newest, biggest bullshit term I've hear recently is MVP.

No, not that MVP...Minimum Viable Product.

As in, what is the bare minimum we can give the (internal) customers and have them accept it.

It had never before occurred to me, but, is this love for silly lingo limited to the English language? Are such buzzwords used commonly in, say, Spanish or French?

Al final del día, es lo que es

How interesting. I plugged "Reach out" into Google Translate and got "Intenta comunicarte" in Spanish, which then translates in English as "Try to communicate". If it were translated literally, "Reach out" should be "Alcanzar fuera"

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Originally posted by parabellum:

It had never before occurred to me, but, is this love for silly lingo limited to the English language? Are such buzzwords used commonly in, say, Spanish or French?

I spent a year and a half in Barcelona, American team lead for a transfer-of-technology project, introducing computer systems to the final assembly line in an automobile factory.

My Spanish counterparts were well educated, multi-lingual engineers. Great folks! I'm not sure whether some of the expressions that they used would be classified as "corporate speak," but the slang, and the context in which it was used, was really funny at times.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I do some software development at my work. The newest, biggest bullshit term I've hear recently is MVP.

No, not that MVP...Minimum Viable Product.

As in, what is the bare minimum we can give the (internal) customers and have them accept it.

This occurred to me recently as well.
MVP was new to me and I asked what is the definition of that term.
Never heard it used in that way before and have been in software for 20 years now.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The "reach out" stuff .... I'm wondering if it has its origin with police in that region.

I first ran across it long ago in a novel as an expression used by the NYPD. It’s odd how things like that stick with me. I can’t remember the names of people I worked with for years, but something like that? Carved in stone.

I remember the Four Tops...

I was in L.A. last week for a consulting contract. Sitting in a room full of lawyers and other experts, the corporate speak was thick.

I finally ask if we could do the meeting in English.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The "reach out" stuff .... I'm wondering if it has its origin with police in that region.

I first ran across it long ago in a novel as an expression used by the NYPD. It’s odd how things like that stick with me. I can’t remember the names of people I worked with for years, but something like that? Carved in stone.

They used it a lot in NYPD Blue. Jimmy Smits and David Caruso were forever 'Reaching out' to other precincts, officers, departments, snitches and the like. That's the first I heard it regularly I think. That would be 1993.

I just used the word “problematic” in another post here, a few minutes ago.

Haven’t checked the rule book lately, do I use the sack of doorknobs on myself, or is there a more effective device proscribed?

Problematic? That word has been in the English language since at least the beginning of the 17th Century.

"Problematic" : etymology

problematic (adj.)

c. 1600, "doubtful, questionable, uncertain, unsettled," from French problematique (15c.), from Late Latin problematicus, from Greek problēmatikos "pertaining to a problem," from problēmatos, genitive of problēma

Contrast this with "deconflict" which I mentioned in my first post. The same goes for "de-conflict". They're making up shit.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Problematic? That word has been in the English language since at least the beginning of the 17th Century.

"Problematic" : etymology

problematic (adj.)

c. 1600, "doubtful, questionable, uncertain, unsettled," from French problematique (15c.), from Late Latin problematicus, from Greek problēmatikos "pertaining to a problem," from problēmatos, genitive of problēma

Contrast this with "deconflict" which I mentioned in my first post. The same goes for "de-conflict". They're making up shit.

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Be that as it may, it has been more of a recent buzzword, corporate/academic/semiwokespeak in more recent times....

I’ll add “lily pad” from the Afghan airlift debacle, an interim destination for evacuees until they can transit to their final arrival in the USA.

AIC = Adult in Custody

I've yet to figure out what's wrong with stupid fucking convict.

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AIC = Adult in Custody

I've yet to figure out what's wrong with stupid fucking convict.

"Prisoners with Jobs"