{"id":11535,"date":"2007-08-06T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/06\/it-annoyances-me.html"},"modified":"2007-08-06T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:32:05","slug":"it_annoyances_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/it_annoyances_me.html","title":{"rendered":"It annoyances me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugh.  Last weeks meetings were long, and there were many problems and hurdles to overcome — but the biggest was keeping from running screaming from the room (or else going postal with a baseball bat) whenever people (far too often) used the word “solution” as a verb, as in, “I need to solution <\/em>this particular problem” or “We’re here to gather requirements; we shouldn’t be solutioning <\/em>this yet.”<\/p>\n

Um … shouldn’t the verb actually be solve?<\/em>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ugh.  Last weeks meetings were long, and there were many problems and hurdles to overcome — but the biggest was keeping from running screaming from the room (or else going…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51326,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-leaping-robotic-overlords.html","url_meta":{"origin":11535,"position":0},"title":"I, for one, welcome our new leaping robotic overlords","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jun-15 6:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"And some future generation is looking at this video from their bunker and screaming, \"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!\" Originally shared by +Boing Boing: Robotic cheetah can now see and leap over hurdles as it runs. http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/05\/29\/robotic-cheetah-can-now-see-an.html \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1d0defdd-82dc-4b7b-b66d-123568b20111imgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12031,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/rising_to_new_heights_or.html","url_meta":{"origin":11535,"position":1},"title":"Rising to new heights (or depths) in Buzzword Bingo","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Dec-07 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a sales manager actually send me an e-mail that contained the following phrase (on something that has nothing to do with geology): ... articulate a cohesive picture of...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131354,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/on-verbing-nouns.html","url_meta":{"origin":11535,"position":2},"title":"On verbing nouns","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Aug-16 10:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, turning nouns into verbs doesn't generally bother me -- except when the nouns involved are themselves derivations of verbs that are being turned back to verbs that mean pretty much the same thing as the original verb.My current (least) favorite example is solution as a verb. 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