The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[niklinna]

Please let me hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

"Utilize" is worthless; it just means "use". You can save us time and energy by saying "use". They are the same, but one is needlessly longer. If you think "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful, let me tell you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning.

I will not say more. If I wanted to say more about the word "use", see the above rant.

Thanks you for your time.

Tightened that rant up a bit for you.

 

[overgeeked]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

George Carlin and William Zinsser have similar rants about the softening of the English language.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

However, "utilize" allows me to use the word "utilization," which I think we can all agree is much longer and has more syllables than "use" or "usage."

Look, man, the boss asked me to fill conference call time as much as possible so he doesn't have to say anything before tee time at the golf course, so I wantdesire to useutilize as many longmultisyllabic words as possiblecan be inserted into this comment.

 

[MarkB]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

Very good point. I'll make sure to be more usitarian in my vocabulary in future.

 

[Gradine]

I wouldn't be too sad if the phrase "white room theory-crafting" were to snort pretentiously and disappear in a puff of acrid green smoke.

I feel similarly about the activity being described

 

[Ryujin]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

If you make use of longer words, you fill the pages of a 5 page - double-spaced essay far more quickly

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Please allow me to hijack your complaint to talk about one of my own.

The words "use" and "utilize". "Utilize" is a worthless word. It just means "use". Whenever you say or write "utilize" you can save us all the time and energy and just say "use". They are exactly the same, one is just needlessly longer. If you think that "utilize" makes it sound more technical or serious or meaningful in any way, let me assure you it doesn't. It implies nothing, other than the fact that you wanted to use a longer word. It's a cheap veneer of of syllables used to hide a lack of meaning beneath.

I will not expand on this. If I wanted to expand on the word "use", well, see the above rant.

Thank you for your time.

I am paid by the syllable.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I am paid by the syllable.

You get paid by the syllable‽‽‽ Lucky! I get paid by the page!


That's why my essays are one-word-to-a-page! I should move to the one-syllable-to-the-page model!

 

[RealAlHazred]

For your daily dose of schadenfreude.

 

[Ryujin]

For your daily dose of schadenfreude.

No decision on this yet, as far as I know, but I can't really imagine that these guys will still be lawyers a month from now, given this level of malpractice.