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April
26, 2005:
Words To Avoid To Be A More Effective Communicator
Interview
with Erik Wensberg, author of
Modern
American Usage |
Mike Carruthers:
A good editor of books or magazines notices changes in the
English language that perhaps others don't, often changes those
editors find annoying. For example…
Erik
Wensberg:
Perhaps my least favorite word in the English language is frustrated
it is used to describe any unpleasant emotion.
Erik
Wensberg, editor and author of the book, Modern
American Usage, A Guide…
It is
a word that people reach for first when they see no point in
naming an actual human emotion: anxiety, worry, impatience,
and it says nothing.
So, when
you use the word frustrated you probably mean something else.
And another word Erik isn't wild about….
Focus,
focus is the great snooze word of our time. Everyone focuses,
nobody looks, nobody concentrates, nobody pays attention, everyone
focuses. And focus has become so wildly overused that the mind
immediately turns off.
And Erik
really doesn't like the word like.
That's
everybody's un-favorite word and it is the universal hiccup,
the universal ah. They like can't put a sentence together without
like inserting a word that means nothing like, like. It's the
new pause to figure out what you're going to say next.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers, and that's Something You Should Know.
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