It's important to adjust your message format and phrasing to your audience
Helene Send a noteboard - 08/08/2010 07:24:29 AM
Being criticized (during marketing prep or similar) for using words my colleagues apparently never bothered to learn pisses me off. Ok, yeah, because it's my fault your lexicon doesn't include "aficionado" or "morass." Or "lexicon," most likely. Fuckers.
When you use words that others don't know, does it reflect badly on you or them? If its effect is negative for them, don't stop using the words, but it if has a negative impact on your career, it's probably better to avoid less commonly used words.
E.g. my fiance uses words his colleagues don't know, but it's helped him establish a position of authority at work.
Arguments that detract from someone's position
- 07/08/2010 07:43:59 AM
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Being called a "Nazi" 
- 07/08/2010 11:47:07 AM
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- 07/08/2010 11:47:07 AM
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Now I'm curious, what kinds of statements gets people to call you a nazi? *NM*
- 08/08/2010 07:16:22 AM
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You know... "I like the smell of Jews burning in the morning. It smells like... genocide." *NM*
- 08/08/2010 10:18:35 AM
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It sounds anti-semitic and crude. I'm not sure it qualifies for nazi.
- 08/08/2010 01:16:37 PM
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It used to be my signature! 
- 09/08/2010 02:32:55 AM
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- 09/08/2010 02:32:55 AM
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It's an offensive and potentially hurtful statement.
- 09/08/2010 08:43:22 AM
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Did you read her actual message body? *NM*
- 09/08/2010 03:47:10 PM
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- 09/08/2010 03:47:10 PM
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I'm just explaining the responses, not attributing these thoughts/feelings to Belals girl. *NM*
- 09/08/2010 04:20:18 PM
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Which is why I've never said it in my life
- 09/08/2010 03:47:44 PM
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I understand 
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- 09/08/2010 04:19:40 PM
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- 09/08/2010 04:19:40 PM
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Don't believe her. She's a LIAR NAZI. You can trust me. 
*NM*
- 11/08/2010 07:22:08 AM
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- 11/08/2010 07:22:08 AM
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Please don't make me send the Gestapo to your door at midnight. *NM*
- 11/08/2010 11:32:36 AM
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Re: Now I'm curious, what kinds of statements gets people to call you a nazi?
- 09/08/2010 03:18:42 AM
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Those both piss me off.
- 07/08/2010 02:21:42 PM
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Anyone that argues from within the racial paradigm for issues that aren't racial.
- 07/08/2010 03:54:56 PM
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Oh yes, I remember the OJ trial. Of course it was because he was black, not because he'd killed her.
- 08/08/2010 07:18:36 AM
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Not sure this fits the post, but as I'm currently angry about it, I'm sharing.
- 07/08/2010 07:06:18 PM
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It's important to adjust your message format and phrasing to your audience
- 08/08/2010 07:24:29 AM
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Disagreeing with me. That really makes me not want to honestly consider their opinion. *NM*
- 07/08/2010 07:35:58 PM
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Doesn't Sassy have the same view? *NM*
- 14/08/2010 05:14:46 AM
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Of course. It's always best not to let her have her own opinions. *NM*
- 14/08/2010 11:10:53 AM
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I hate it when people...
- 08/08/2010 03:27:28 AM
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Yes, mislabeling people to discredit their position. It gets old. *NM*
- 08/08/2010 07:25:12 AM
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my favorite counter to "that's the way we've always done it..."
- 08/08/2010 04:14:15 AM
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I like that story. Have you ever managed to get that entire story out without being interrupted? *NM*
- 08/08/2010 07:26:15 AM
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I have a lot but I particularly get pissed when I see fat kids.
- 08/08/2010 05:31:23 AM
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Yes, I know what you mean. It's like parents who say: Look at how my child talks to me!
- 08/08/2010 07:13:41 AM
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No.
- 08/08/2010 05:04:09 PM
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of course but i'm sure that group of families isn't what Helene is referring to
- 08/08/2010 05:16:04 PM
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- 08/08/2010 05:16:04 PM
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Parents who have very difficult children won't appeal to me about their children's behavior. *NM*
- 08/08/2010 05:21:44 PM
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Why not?, if you're friends. *NM*
- 09/08/2010 12:37:05 AM
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Because people who do their best know why their kids are behaving the way they are behaving
- 09/08/2010 08:48:12 AM
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I don't know; it really wasn't clear to me from what you said. *NM*
- 11/08/2010 09:09:28 AM
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I'm describing behavior, poor parenting, that only certain people display, namely crap parents.
- 11/08/2010 12:40:32 PM
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I agree. The parents with actual screwed up kids know they are screwed up.
- 11/08/2010 12:43:01 AM
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Mine.
- 09/08/2010 02:42:46 PM
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my boyfriend hates when I use this one against him
- 09/08/2010 04:30:50 PM
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- 09/08/2010 04:30:50 PM
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it's such an inane statement that it really can only be met with physical violence. *NM*
- 09/08/2010 06:18:04 PM
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