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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderchild" data-source="post: 1881" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I think it's also partly that we tend to be less influenced by &quot;the herd&quot; so where most people &quot;conform&quot; we tend to stick to our own terms as we are less likely to change and care less about what others think. I find myself very adverse to buzz words and detest them and keenly watch them come and go to be replaced by the next buzz word. I have noticed how over the last decade phrases that mean action have become less and less about the action expected. &quot;I will come back to you&quot; has replaced &quot;I will get back to you&quot;. I prefer the former because it's less confusing. &quot;To come&quot; describes an act of physical movement from one location to another yet you just picked up the phone or wrote an email. I don't know if this is office culture. I hear a lot of phrases used that mean something totally different and are referring to what is assumed as a direct action very indirectly.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Thunderchild, post: 1881, member: 1"] I think it's also partly that we tend to be less influenced by "the herd" so where most people "conform" we tend to stick to our own terms as we are less likely to change and care less about what others think. I find myself very adverse to buzz words and detest them and keenly watch them come and go to be replaced by the next buzz word. I have noticed how over the last decade phrases that mean action have become less and less about the action expected. "I will come back to you" has replaced "I will get back to you". I prefer the former because it's less confusing. "To come" describes an act of physical movement from one location to another yet you just picked up the phone or wrote an email. I don't know if this is office culture. I hear a lot of phrases used that mean something totally different and are referring to what is assumed as a direct action very indirectly. [/QUOTE]

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