noun. Dimbleby is not, I think, commenting on the expression ‘commissioning processes’ but on ‘the language of commissioning processes’. AnWulf - I grant you that most British dictionaries list it as babysit, but Collins lists it as baby-sit, and American Heritage, Random House and Etymology Online list it with both spellings. In fact, reading Lucy Kellaway at the FT, and the example of John Birt at the BBC, would suggest this is more likely to come from certain senior managers. However property is usually a safe bet so high leveraging is acceptable to the lender; the same would not be true of an untried start-up. But as they say at MWDEU - 'Concern over the propriety of "due to" is one of those long-lived controversies in which the grounds for objection have entirely changed over time'. (But I don't suppose that'll make you think any more highly of it). And then there’s the plural ‘processes’. There is also the concept of ‘stakeholder capitalism’ (as opposed to ‘shareholder capitalism’) which is rather easier to say than ‘All those that have an interest capitalism’. The other thing I am not sure about in speaking of common usage is this: looking at, say, Tolkien and his works which of course inhold many archaic words and usages) - the question is how do they affect 'common usage' - is it based on counting each book as one text or do we multiply up by the number of copies in circulation? The French tried it again in Vietnam, but after sixty years with French as the language of the ruling class and taught in all schools, the impact on Vietnamese seems quite small, just a few hundred words at the most - words for ideas and things which were new. Try an Ngram (British books) for that commonr British business cliché of the 80s 'by and large': extend the date to 2008 and you'll see its use has dropped off by about a quarter in the last twenty years or so. Even the American Heritage Dictionary, set up as an antidote to Webster's 3rd International, is pretty well descriptive these days, although helped by 'panels of experts'. Feedback has become the dreaded and dirty "F" word at work. @jayles -Yup. But it has also taken on a business bullshit meaning of 'generally improve' - 'I need to see how I can best leverage my career' - and this is the one that has come in for most stick. Some of us like to do a bit of research; what's wrong with that? I explained why. I would also argue that there is a subtle difference between response and feedback. A) Two words B) Hyphenated C) One word Feedback: Breakup as a noun is one word. By allowing the person to comment on the feedback you’ve given or help make suggestions on what should be done, that two of you will form communication bond that both parties can benefit from. BTW I'm playing at Albany Presbyterian Church this Sat 2 pm - your neck of the woods, I think. (But given their roots I assume both words would be rejected by our Anglish friends.). Whatever prompts us to debate what the 'authorities' cite as the dernier cri, when their work does ours for us? I babysat because I was asked to babysit is fine. After the Lothians were conquered by Malcolm II at the Battle of Carham in 1018, elites spoke Gaelic and continued to do so down to c. 1200. To some extent this means one is teaching cliches, and set word-strings, and marks "global warming" as "right" and "worldwide warming" as wrong, simply on the basis of common usage, assuming that the student is unaware of the norm.Teachng English to native speakers may be different, almost the opposite. @Brus - we may have a somewhat arbitrary spelling system, but at least we largely agree how to spell each individual word. Management-speak (hyphenated) is horrible, too. It is likely that English (of the Northumbrian variety) was spoken in the eastern Lowlands before the arrival of Gaelic from Argyll (the south-western part of the Highlands), and that in the western Lowlands, Cumbric, a Brythonic Celtic languag, was spoken by Celts who had moved north into Galloway, and as far north as Glasgow, at the time of the Anglo-Saxon settlements in Cumbria. Oh please! Reinforcing feedback can be given at any time, and the more you provide useful reinforcing feedback, the better. So it was an ‘e’ which proved beyond budget, then, or a proof-reader. There's no reference about 'due to' only referring to money owed in Fowlers (1st and 3rd editions). They are compelled by organisational structures.’. Astonishingly, it is happy with aero-thermal. A dictionary can give us advice, but its basic job is to tell us the meanings and speaking of words we are likely to hear or see around us. That’s OK if you’re going to use it only once, but is a hell of a mouthful if you need to repeat it. Another on his list is ‘deliver’, although I can’t see that he really puts forward a reason why (apart from the fact that he doesn’t like it). I sometimes wonder if there isn't the tiniest bit of intellectual snobbery at play here. After the Takeover, they're taken "case by case". Jargon sounds clever, but it is a cheap way of trying to describe your thoughts and impressions. Obviously the teacher knows his subject, but that is not included in the 'training'. (Investopedia) - even if we stop at 'borrowed money'. Both feedback (also spelled feed-back) as a noun and as a (phrasal) verb exist from the early 1920s, first in the field of radio-telegraph technology. After giving feedback, give the recipient a chance to respond. These are typical of the sort of expression I mean. I know that a lot of people think that this should be reserved for physical delivery, but I don’t really see why. It presumably has processes for doing this. See Page 214 in Working with Words. b. I don't think that not knowing which latinates were in OE forholds folks. But hyphens are tricky things, and usage changes over time. The plural form of feedback is also feedback. Break up is two words as a verb. I also check quite a few dictionaries at one time, so I can see that there is a consensus. This means one has to be quite catholic in one's approach, and sometimes check dictionaries to find out about how English is used outside one's own experience. Suppl. 2) Backwards compatibility: only by slowing the rate of change can we hope that Shakespeare et al will remain understandable down the generations to come. Hey, Niall, what about all those teachers at the best schools in England, by which I mean the ones who prove it by getting their pupils into the best universities in the land as a sample of the quality of their teaching. All to do with having and wielding control and power. All languages are evolving from one generation to the next; we should not be unduly surprised if English is changing within our own lifetide. The first hurdle in teaching English (to non-English-speakers) is to decide what is English - usually American or British, but in fact the devil is in the detail. This seems to me a simple extension of the original meaning of the word, and pretty harmless. The four linguistic horrors you introduce are - well, you've put your finger on it: designed to irritate. It is very elementary grammar, as taught to me at about the age of eight, noun! 'feedback' - I agree with you here, but prefer your second solution - 'provide feedback', as the phrasal verb 'feed back' is usually used transitively about something specific - 'the results will be fed back to the committee'. Think of sailing (which is full of jargon) - time is of the essence there. Anyway, I hav made a list of OE latinates and posted it. I do think it's worth separating out the technological jargon from meaningless or baffling business buzzwords. Do you really think those to come will really care what we thought or how we spoke? Granted, one or two allow it as an alternative spelling to proofread, but that rather begs the question (in the non-purist sense): if you can hyphenate 'proofread', why not 'check in'? And I imagine this goes for other search engines as well. I am not fussed about the OED and H L Mencken Amer - life is too short to consult authorities and yet still to contribute to this argument. Conversely, OneLook finds 23 dictionary entries for 'proofread', including in Merriam-Webster, American Heritage, Collins, Macmillan and Cambridge. I do not live in England but it is a no-brainier that teachers need training just as much as bricklayers, heating engineers, joiners and doctors. Looking at "thole" vs "tolerate", it may be data before 1600 is limited; there just weren't many books.Oddly "drone + strike" would peaks around 1600.To be clear, I don't use google directly - i go thru startpage.com ; no mobile phone, so no drone-strike either! How do they do it? Finally we might agree with them, and pretend we did so all along. We hate grammatical errors with passion. That's what I call enrichment. @WW "I teach in large and small corporations" - in my day that meant waiting in the snow for the tram at 0630, first class in-company at 0730, another tram.. and so on till mid-evening. In accounting and finance AmE terminology has taken over, under the sway of the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board). Permalink is a good example. "There was no need for all that borrowing". this adds nothing (and when I hear something like this, the use of language completely overshadows the content, to the point where I don't take in who and what x and y are).A lot of this unnecessary BS tends to be used by management types, perhaps to make their jobs (and themselves) sound more important than they are.And sometimes the buzzwords actively subtract value (they make things opaque, often deliberately) as you mentioned above. It is thought that these languages were similar enough to allow communication, but differed in inflexions, etc, so they just dropped away naturally. Who will make the dictionaries, if no one is to be at the cutting edge? Gaelic was certainly spoken in parts of the western Lowlands, and became spoken more widely with the merger of the Gaelic Kingdom of Alba with the Kingdom of the Picts, centred in the north and west (where Gaelic slowly replaced Pictish), but: "In south-eastern Scotland, there is no evidence that Gaelic was ever widely spoken. Past prime ministers don't get capitals in general, but a particular named one does. Do terms like 'feedback' and 'human resources', other than in connection with organ donation, feature in any form of literature you know? So many malapropisms to decipher with these days!). You have a point with Google Books and the Bible, but I think you have to be very careful with Google Books and even more Google Search results in any case, which bear no relationship to the actual number of entries listed. Make the feedback sessions a two-way conversation. Thanks for all that, Warsaw Will. Although feedback is unfortunately avoided or even feared in many societies, it is probably one of the greatest gifts you can give and also receive from someone. 24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. Don’t be too one-sided. Whatever we may think about it, 'feedback' is here to stay, and is often a more efficient way of describing things than any alternative - 'the feedback from the survey has been overwhelmingly positive'. This expression is commonly used in both the Economist and the FT, which generally avoid management speak, and I would argue that it's more of a technical term than a piece of management jargon. "I think I'd prefer "encase" to "case".In fact modern usage of case does have criminal undertones. Unfortunately jargon, or "management speak" as some call it, has become all common and has spread from business to everyday use.Phrases like "keep me updated", "keep me apprised", "at the end of the day", "take under advisement", and "going forward", occasionally have me tearing out what little hair I have left. feedback - Translation to Spanish, pronunciation, and forum discussions. Restaurant Employee Information Forms – These are for those customers who wish to know the information of those who served them, or for the restaurant owners to know more about their employees. No, because read is the verb and proof is the object noun, as what it is you read, so 'read proof' is where you feel we would be going; proofread isn't right either, proof-read a pleasing compromise. And due to?? in relation to the OE-speaking population (1-1.5 million). 2: . Speak the language of outreach? I endured someone for a bit who at what seemed endless meetings would prate sometimes of something called 'enkities'. Edit: "Ye focht fae Wallace, will ye nae fecht fae freedom?". They meet regularly throughout the year and feedback to staff and Governors as appropriate.”. Trying to preserve a distinction between them is pointless.'. I teach in large and small corporations, and the way I hear most of these words used is in specific technical senses; not in a meaningless business-speak way at all. At the cutting edge of spelling - that's a new one on me. See Page 219 in Working with Words. Good to hear from you on this, fellow Scotsman. However that does not "feel" right: we bemoan any change, clinging to the usages of our youth, seemingly unaware that the next generation has already writing its own version of English, and there is nowt to be done about it. Objections to that sort of business speak I can understand, but including any new words just because they are used in corporate business or come from America, I don't. However, I think feedback as a one-word verb runs against the grain of most of the *back words. But I think everything should be taken on its own merits, rather than making blanket rules such as that the passive is bad, turning nouns into verbs (and vice-versa) is bad, use of adverbs is bad, etc. (Can we date this quot… I would rather never write or write like a moron than write like them, and I have been accused of sounding as though English as not my first language, by a cosy little online group that after a while I found less friendly and more an oppressive cliché. I own up to being lorded-over by the spell-checker, just putting in hyphens to stop it red-lining, so what? I must be one of the few people in the land who do not work for the BBC then, and mighty glad about it I am, despite the massive salaries and redundancies they pay, if this is how they speak. Unfortunately I am otherwise engaged on Saturday, but I would welcome the chance to meet you if you happen to have further engagements in the area. @WWwrt leverage; I think its use as a verb has, like a lot of "business speak", come from AmE as does the mispronunciation that normally accompanies it. Heard in a business context it must be borne, I suppose, by those who must put up with it. or fill in the name and email fields below: 1. I have some minor disagreements with you about business English, however. Nevertheless, this prepositional usage is now widespread and common in all types of literature and must be regarded as standard English.'. Feedback is more general than response. I agree, proofread as a single word looks fine. See examples of Feedback in English. Report Abuse. ©2020 CYCLE Interactive, LLC.All Rights Reserved. 1.1. "Re-enters in the atmosphere?" I don't. Two years ago I wrote a post about these on my blog, ‘Loop back to me and we’ll touch base about it offline’, in which I said: ‘for many native-speakers, this sort of language can be incomprehensible, sound pretentious or just sound plain ugly. Being largely ignored by the Norman upper crust, Old English probably went on its own quiet way. OK, that's your opinion, but it puts you out of kilter with virtually every dictionary. This is not exactly the way I see it used (and being taught), which is much better reflected by the definition at Investopedia - ‘A party that has an interest in an enterprise or project. I am sure it is quite different if you are teaching toddlers, or indeed people who are younger than about 9, I grant you, where methods to impart what is required may indeed need to be taught to the teachers.I think your analogy with the gynaecologist would be apt if he were to be taught how to talk to the patients, how to treat the nurses, and how to cope with the bureaucracy in his hospital. At a Google images search, most of the hyphenated examples are for an American ' location-based social networking website for mobile devices' (Wikipedia) called Foursquare, and here they could possibly be using it as a noun, but they also have almost identical signs with two separate words. I really don't know what Dimbleby was on about, in that case, but I know this much: he didn't like it, whatever it was!Meanings of words like 'commissioning' being 'pretty obvious' to the cognoscenti despite an object to follow, all very well for the said cognoscenti but a mystery to those of us in the wide world. That is the place to look for the evidence, Warsaw Will, not in the dictionaries. Anyway, she informed the house, a fellow who was under a tinkety-tonky order went into one end of a place and did a runner out of the other end attired in a burka and has disappeared. @Jayles ... good words for progress (the noun) are headway and strides; wakefulness also works for insomnia or saying, "I was restless.". I wish we'd had "Email English" (Macmillan) then but it was all too new. If we fancy that we are at the cutting edge the idea, surely, is to jump in and suggest what we think is sound. Even the following, which sounds "wrong" to me, is apparently okay in Quebec:"If I would win the lottery, I would buy a Mercedes". All I was trying to say was that it was ironic that you had used a hyphen where most people wouldn't, in a comment criticising the use of hyphens. The only difference I can see is that 'showcase' as a verb is relatively new. There's a huge spike around 1611, the KJV's publication date, so I think we can assume, not only that it is in Ngram, but that more than one copy is being counted. The publishing industry has had commissioning editors for decades, but I don’t remember any great clamour that these should be called ‘book-commissioning editors’. It appears to be with the loss of French territories under John Lackland (1204, I think),that the Norman nobility started looking more to England and to the English language in the 13th and 14th centuries (parliamentary papers were in English from about the middle of the 14th century). in, say, renting out property, the higher the mortgage, the higher the gearing or leverage; and the higher the risk if it all turns to custard. In the first category I’d put verbing or verbification - two words you might not find in a dictionary, but commonly used to describe the process of turning verbs into nouns - just Google them. Feedback should be a two-way conversation, where you and your employee are working together to uncover learnings and apply them to future endeavours.This is where you can take on the role of a coach, creating a culture of ongoing employee development. feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks) 1. @Brus - each of us is interested in English for different reasons, and like to go about things in our own individual ways. Does Jeeves feedback to Wooster, or indeed give him feedback? Counterpart definition is - one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate. "leverage" is AmE term for BrE "gearing", although I've not heard the latter in a long time now in this sense. And it it is always this second practice that the critics of business language latch on to. Some less esoteric approach might be more widely able to be taken onboard. http://www.holidayextras.co.uk/airport-hotels/gatwick/twilight-check-in.htmlhttp://www.britishairways.com/travel/sscidemo1/public/en_gb, 3 votes I have been struggling to get my head round the origins of Middle English. Warsaw Will,not a lot, really, I suppose. I've better things to do with my time than work these things out 'by logic'. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides the following. Submit your question here. That pretty much limits Anglish to folk who are very knowledgeable about word-roots then. The horror that is Panglish is just around the corner.I just hope that I will have met the grim reaper before it becomes the norm. And if we didn't coin new words and extend existing words' uses, English would be a pretty static language indeed, instead of the wondrous dynamic thing it is. Does it count just once? Permalink I spend a lot of time on linguistics blogs, and working any other way would simply be regarded as assertionism. b : the partial reversion (see reversion sense 3a) of the effects of a process to its source or to a preceding stage. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/old-english-modern-english. It would seem unfair to lend equal weight to a widely-read work and some book that just ran to 500 copies all unsold. OE had indicated many grammatical categories and relationships by attaching inflections (endings) to word roots, in a similar way to Latin or German." Having said that I do find myself writing on the whiteboard things like:insomnia = sleeplessnessprogress = going forwardrapid = quick, fastand then I thnk of you, and how right the underlying mindset would be.Even: cor-RECT = right ! But this differentiation is usually considered pretty old hat nowadays. @HS ... ok, I'll bite. Acronyms make a word, this was not a word so it isn't an acronym. The things you say about hyphens are very interesting. But when it comes to spelling (which in English is little guide to pronunciation) some standardization does help communication, and with spell-checkers is now very easy.When I started teaching I thought I knew English and what was right and wrong. He later changed his mind, however, and said of 'due to' to mean cause - 'proper, but not usual'. If you can hyphenate 'proofread', why not 'check in'? However for my goals (ESOL), I need to teach the meaning of "pro" and "gress" as building blocks toward con-gress, ag-gress-ive, grade, a-gree, pro-pose, pro-fess, pro-ceed and so on. If the flight is delayed horribly I could deliver a paper to fellow passengers on the use of hyphens, to pass the time, but they wouldn't like it. 4. Why should we try to stop it? as wrong. Am I alone in finding this whole thing rather disappointing for a major British school? There is a procedure for letting out, under surveillance of some kind, bad people who were formerly incarcerated, and it is known by some initials which I did not grasp, but she turned them into a made up word which sounded like 'tinkety-tonkies' or something like that. http://www.holidayextras.co.uk/airport-hotels/gatwick/twilight-check-in.html, http://www.britishairways.com/travel/sscidemo1/public/en_gb, http://caxton1485.wordpress.com/tag/owing-to/, http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/babysit?q=babysit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic, http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/old-english-modern-english. It perhaps helps to know a little about John Birt here. 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