jeffrey.t.whitney has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 2 lists, listed 82 words, written 19 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 0 words.
jeffrey.t.whitney has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 2 lists, listed 82 words, written 19 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 0 words.
Comments by jeffrey.t.whitney
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word bodgery
Botched work, bungling.
June 16, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word bugs
When I click on "Your Words" why does it send me to a page of Lists? I want to see the words I have chosen, not a list of lists? It doesn't make any sense at all!!!!
Also, how do I make another list? I can't find any way of doing this!!
June 12, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word usufruct
sounds like a dirty word.
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word monetize
Yuck. I hate it almost as much as 'incentivize'.
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the list misused-by-busilish
leverage!! You forgot leverage!!
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the list hateful-business-words
To this list I would add the phrase "Go-To-Market". They use this as a noun. It is supposed to be a synonym for "product" or "product marketing strategy" or something like that.
Also, all forms of the word "function", such as "functionality". I'm a programmer and I find myself using this word all the time, but there's really not another word that means the same thing as "functionality", even though it's a totally made up word.
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word incentivize
This is not a G@D@#$%! word!!!
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word penultimate
My all-time, most hated type of speech is execubabble. For example, the (?word?) 'incentivize'.
It's not a @#!#@#@! word!!!
It is a noun, not a #@#!#@!@ verb!! Stop with the verbification!!! (To quote a term coined by Grammar Girl).
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word grawlix
mother-@*#$!@#!!!
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word frottage
I'm amazed that there's a word for this.
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word sangfroid
Coolness and composure, especially in trying circumstances
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word purlicue
didn't know there was a name for that. Kind of like aglet.
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word apoplexy
A fit of extreme anger; rage
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word apoplectic
apoplexy: A fit of extreme anger; rage
June 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word cunctatory
Definition: Disposed to delay.
June 10, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word broomrape
a large genus of parasitic herbs (orobanche), which attach themselves to the roots of broom, furze, clover, and other leguminous plants, having a brownish-yellow leafless fleshy stem furnished with pointed scales or bracts. the name was first applied to o. major, the rapum genistæ of lobel and other early herbalists
June 10, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word puckfist
A term of contempt for an empty braggart. †3. A close-fist a niggard
June 10, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word masticate
I masticate 3 times a day.
June 10, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word dessicant
This is a mis-spelling. The word is desiccant.
June 10, 2009