Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Stephen's horribly inelegant verb of the day...

... as found repeatedly in Graduate Recruiters' profiles:
to leverage; leveraging; leveraged
Eugh!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do these people insist on rebranding English parts of speech? I simply don't understand it: there are more than enough words in English elegantly to express oneself with recourse to these abominations.

Anyway, you already knew I thought that, probably. Oh, and I got 11 on that geography test, but am annoyed I don't know the difference between Mali and Burkina Faso. I knew it wasn't Mauritania, but you don't get half-marks...

TCH

October 19, 2005 3:14 pm  
Blogger jonc said...

psh, leverage is a great word, and am finding myself using it more and more....
The other choices just sound lame, leverage sounds cool. Enough said.


I think I even used it on one of my presentation slides on Monday.

jonc

October 19, 2005 8:56 pm  
Blogger Z31 said...

There's nothing wrong with it as a noun, but how can it be a verb?! Presentation, Jon? Are you working for an evil multinational?

October 19, 2005 10:06 pm  

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