The Mock Turtle

Transcribing an interview has made me realise how annoying I am when I speak. I generally hate people saying "like" and "kind of" and it turns out I do both constantly, along with "basically".

I can't be the only one who does this, can I?

I say "like" all the time, like.

Also, A pointed out a few years ago I use "obviously" a lot so I'm super paranoid about that, obviously.

All the stupid work buzzwords. I use them all the time, because people around me do too. And die a little inside every time...

(I honestly said the other day that I had no "bandwidth" to take on a task for example - because I knew the audience would "get" that concept without further discussion, but ugh ugh ugh. :shame: )

Livilla wrote:All the stupid work buzzwords. I use them all the time, because people around me do too. And die a little inside every time...

Me too and I also hate myself. I using 'going forward' all the time and also 'next steps'

In normal life I swear far too much and I only really notice when I am with people who don't do it that much, or at all. My colleague never, ever swears so I rarely use bad language at work now which is good. Not that I did loads before but my previous assistant was fond of a profanity or two so we used to have a good old sweary chat on occasion.

I work for a large American company so I use every business buzzword you could think of.

I am also superfluously sweary. Conversely, I sometimes indicate affirmation by chirping 'Okeydokes!'

Someone I used to work with used to say "Alrighty!" to indicate assent, which was bizarre, as he was really not generally chirpy. It amused me every time.

You are me, BEL, apart from the company I'm contracting at not being American. They do have their own internal shitspeak though. They have a 'Big K.oru' for best practice stuff and roll-outs, and it's all Agile-ing and Scrum-ming everywhere you look.

I say 'obviously' all the time. I hate myself a bit every time I say it.

Livilla wrote:
(I honestly said the other day that I had no "bandwidth" to take on a task for example - because I knew the audience would "get" that concept without further discussion, but ugh ugh ugh. :shame: )

That would be having (or not having) "spare cycles" in our place.

I say basically a lot too. I also say "shine a light" instead of shit now, and not just around the children - I don't know where it's come from and I wish it would go back there, I feel like a right idiot every time it leaves my mouth.

Mrs Danvers wrote:
In normal life I swear far too much and I only really notice when I am with people who don't do it that much, or at all.

I do this, drop a fuck or a twat into a conversation then realise that I don't actually know my audience :shame:

I sometimes use buzzwords at work as well which I hate.

I swear far too much. My husband is exceedingly sweary which doesn't help.

I shout out 'tits!' a lot when things go wrong. :shame:

My American colleagues are a bit more sensitive to swearing than the rest of us, so I've developed a tendency to say "Ah, shoot" instead of shit .

My supervisor who I sit next to hates swearing and rude jokes and any risque talk. When she is on holiday it's like we all have tourettes and swear non-stop.

I'm was quite pleased when my boss started swearing in front of me, it makes me feel more at home

I've started saying an enthusiastic 'Right!' as an affirmative and I don't know why and it annoys me every time.

J pointed out that I say "Well!..." when asked a question

I resist business speak as much as possible. I hate it.

I'm glad it's not just me with the swearing

Oh I swear loads but I don't worry about it particularly

I swear loads too, but also don't care