Dynamic and Journey are seen as "action" words, so something must be happening, even if you can't see it!
Regards
Hamish

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Hamish V Bell, BSc, CEng, FIET, FCQI, CQP
2007 - 2010, Vice President and Trustee

Sorry but I was educated in a state school by an excellent English teacher who promoted simplicity and accuracy in speech and the written word. This nouveau-talk is so not good!

It's the dynamic between two different groups of people, the effect that changes in the behaviour of one group of people has on the behaviour of another group of people. "Dynamic" (n) is the correct word for this, but it could it be spelt out in more detail if that meaning of dynamic is not well known. That's the problem, how do you decide whether a new-ish word or meaning is sufficiently well known to be used.

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Andy Millar CEng MIET MCMI

http://www.linkedin.com/in/millarandy

And just to reinforce my contention that we need to clean up our own act before we criticize anyone else...just seen this written by an engineer: "To qualitatively utilize, enhance, assimilate and inculcate knowledge through hands-on experience in the technical areas." I have no idea what this means.

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Andy Millar CEng MIET MCMI

http://www.linkedin.com/in/millarandy

I have this theory. Those in senior management positions (who don't have degree level qualifications in technical subjects) and don't know what they're talking about, generally use management Gobbledegook as a way of demonstrating intellectual superiority over subordinates. When they see results, are encouraged to continue using it.

I have observed that now subordinates without degree level qualifications, are adopting this nonsense as a way of showing off in front of their managers and putting down more technically minded experts. It's a way of getting promotion and showing that you are not just a techie.

A small gripe I have from time to time, in microsoft word produced documents, is the use of Americanised spellings - i.e. Americanised becomes Americanized - if only people would make sure their spell checker is set to UK English!!!

From an entertaining meeting last week:

Mood music, i.e. "check out the mood music before we do anything".
Runner beans in the undergrowth, i.e. "We need to do a deep dive so that we can make sure we've checked for runner beans in the undergrowth"
Across the piste, i.e. "We should really be playing across the piste, on this one"

Brilliant! I haven't got a clue what that means, but I intend to use it sometime today!

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David Parr BSc.CEng MIET
PRA

quite, I suspect such works of the lingua franca accepting devils "modern liberal" dictionary might also include such bastardised terms as revolutionary, with it's definition having something to do with things that turn... Yeah, Right!, Oh, maybe not...
I'm confused now... what dictionary are we looking at now? which should we avoid? it seems that your argument appears to be that we should avoid ambiguous words, or poorly formed words relying on original words from dictionaries, not all dictionaries, just your dictionary, which is a modern liberal dictionary, just not as new modern or liberal as others dictionaries.
OED lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order 2008 draft)
I guess, the big question is... what version of the OED are you using, and are you happy for the English language never to evolve any more past this dictionary

my manager says that also, except he adds annoying emphasis to the o of forward. I've often felt like stopping him mid-sentence and asking him to repeat the word until he can say it right... I sometimes like to go backwards though, it's often the only way to correct the fatal mistakes that were made to prompt a speech including the phrase going forward!

I liked this one, received today in a advert mailing from the CMI:


Next time anyone asks me what I'm doing I'll say I'm being virtually effective.

(P.S. I see the IET still includes in its values "Digital and global - in thought and action". Sorry, my actions and thoughts are determinedly analogue.)

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Andy Millar CEng MIET MCMI

http://www.linkedin.com/in/millarandy