Friday, February 02, 2007

An allergy to words

Why do people like to use the phrases "Can do" or "will do"?
Nobody uses it in their daily conversations to their friends or family. But its use is ever so rampant in the office.

It's so irritating. Can do.

What is its opposite? Cannot do? Won't do? Don't want to do? Actually-I-don't-want-to-do-but-will-do-because-i-have-no-choice?

I find it offensive when someone answers "can do" when I ask or tell them something.
It's just so dismissive - something like an afterthought to shut you up or like your efforts were "just enough".

I did not ask for approval so why presumption to give it without being asked?

It is even more annoying when business associates like to attach the word "thanks" to their sentences. I find it especially annoying when "thanks" is repeated a few times as a sentence on its own, as if to convey sincerity.

"Thanks, thanks."

Why don't you just say "Thank You" rather than use a short form (thanks) if you were really sincere? Repeating the word thanks several times in a single sentence really doesn't work for me. Besides, it defeats the purpose of "thanks" being a short form. Come to think of it, I don't recall anyone saying "Thank you, thank you, thank you." profusely before.


Bah.

XxX,

audrey at 15:33

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