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Theme
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:36 pm Post subject: "Going Forward" |
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"If you do not wish to participate in xxxxxxx going forward please.... "
Couldn't this have been written xxxxxxx "any more" or in the future? Why this overuse of going forward?
I bet you two years ago the writer would have found more traditional words.
Has anyone noticed that going forward has replaced at the end of he day as the most overused phrase?
Recently I even heard a reporter use both in one sentence.
Can't get enough of them I guess.
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| "from now on" |
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Theme
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
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Thanks, Louis, for the correct way to say this - I was not sure. |
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joyorbison
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never heard this. Who says this? American thing? |
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Theme
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| joyorbison wrote: |
| I've never heard this. Who says this? American thing? |
Yes. "Going Forward" is used extensively in the U.S.
I heard "at the end of the day" from a Brit in Taiwan around 2000. It landed over here about 2 or 3 years ago and is overused as well.
I guess going forward would be considered business speak here. |
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Theme
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:43 am Post subject: "moved forward" |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
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I found this variation; or is this standard?
"I have the scanner! I have a huge file room...I have started storing all of my life/health files electronically just haven't moved forward with the others yet. " |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:01 am Post subject: |
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So...is "at the end of the day" on the way out? If I heard ONE MORE talking head use that expression I was ready to shoot him!!!!!
At the end of WHAT day??????? |
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Theme
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| i think it is strongly related to management-speak. i did an mba back home three years ago, and people there were always 'going forward', as opposed to, you know, going back in time. anyway to the OP, couldn't agree more, i hate the phrase with a passion. |
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