You English majors might want to skip this entry

Posted on September 17, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

The following sentence appears in a technical document I’m reviewing. Those of you with weak constitutions should avert your eyes:

“Upon acceptance of the gap analysis, an automated way of updating the information as well as introducing any new required information will be solutioned.”

Some nouns just shouldn’t be verbed, y’know?

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2 Responses to You English majors might want to skip this entry

  1. Karin says:
    September 17, 2002 at 9:54 am

    That trumps my previous bad-biz-speak example, “sunsetting our old software to keep our systems evergreen.”

  2. Ginger says:
    September 17, 2002 at 10:11 am

    Otherwise known as, “why will the corporate world always need technical writers, even if they’re too dumb to know that they do?”.

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