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WCDT: 11-15 July 2011 (1966-1970)
pwhodges:
I think in most business contexts they'd have less problem with the word than with the suggestion that the budgetary planning had not been more proactively finalised :wink:
wrwight:
Yeah, I personally dislike the term. I suppose it makes sense as in "I guess the area is 5x5 squares, and I charge about $10/square, so without pulling out my measuring instrument, it should ballpark around $250." In that instance If the thought process is along those lines I suppose it applies, but it seems like the term "educated guess" would work just as well there, if not better, and it wouldn't make me cringe. I think it's just the mashing of the words together. I tend to dislike it when people do that, even though English is littered with them already. I don't know, it seems very, not sure what word to use that wouldn't sound condescending, ha. (I guess that's a bit self-revelatory, isn't it?)
Schmorgluck:
I don't know if "slang" is to English exactly what "argot" is to French, but "argot" is born from the thieving crowd basically encrypting their way of speaking to each other.
michael28:
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--- Quote from: michael28 on 13 Jul 2011, 15:07 ---Thanks for the info. I just thought it might be more of a slang term-
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It was me, actually. The word is marked not as slang but as "informal" in the dictionaries. They trace its origins back to the 1930s in the US.
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sorry. Must have been the business studies crowd^^
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jul 2011, 16:11 ---I think in most business contexts they'd have less problem with the word than with the suggestion that the budgetary planning had not been more proactively finalised :wink:
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Or that they're not using enough synergy :roll:
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