Management Malapropisms
Discussion
I love it when someone gets promoted into a managerial position and decides they have to be 'managerial' which includes trying to sound clever.
A few recent examples from someone normally down to earth who is obviously blinded by the position he's now in -
"How have you appraised the management about this incident?"
Instead of answering 'we do weekly quizes and the winner gets a gold star' I took it that he meant 'apprise' instead of 'appraise'.
"I shall have a vis-a-vis with him later"
I didn't know what to answer, but presumed he meant tete-a-tete.
Why do it? Why open yourslef up to ridicule and chortling by trying to make yourself sound like something you aren't?
This isn't spelling/grammar etc, it's just pretentiousness, just talk normal loike.
A few recent examples from someone normally down to earth who is obviously blinded by the position he's now in -
"How have you appraised the management about this incident?"
Instead of answering 'we do weekly quizes and the winner gets a gold star' I took it that he meant 'apprise' instead of 'appraise'.
"I shall have a vis-a-vis with him later"
I didn't know what to answer, but presumed he meant tete-a-tete.
Why do it? Why open yourslef up to ridicule and chortling by trying to make yourself sound like something you aren't?
This isn't spelling/grammar etc, it's just pretentiousness, just talk normal loike.
Edited by andy_s on Wednesday 15th December 10:13
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