Morris Minor Owners Club

When a manager (for a top name vehicle company I will not mention) returned a few weeks ago from a 'motivational' training course and posts a notice of recommendations on the staff notice board with one line reading "Don't use feature babble to our customers" ??? (Thank goodness I am of retired age and only doing the odd part time work and not in any way considered a candidate for any daft courses - Done it seen it so often in the past )

The larger, and more well known organisation today seem to be spending more and more money on these 'expert' outside training firms and to what end result? They seem to want to make everyone into cloned robotic beings.
Begin conversation -"Hi I am Fred your advisor today on Blah Blah Blah" I need to ask you some personal details"
End conversation - "Is there anything more I can do for you today"

The management at work love all this managementspeak. When they talk about 'solutionizing' things being 'rolled out' and 'put in place', but mainly things being 'played out in the theatre of the workplace', I stick my hand up and ask:- "What's the risk factor on that? Can you quantify it?"
That usually stops them!

"Can I get", as in "can I get a coffee", when the meaning is "may I have". Hear it all the time now, where did that come from?

When talking about proposed projects - "Can it wash its face?" or "Let's see if its got legs"

Mark

"Train Stn" instead of "Rly Stn".

Pamphlets/leaflets etc with pics of smiling stereotypical people; to illustrate - ethnic/yoof and retired folk - that "diversity" is the IN word!

"Move on"

Blokes from Kent with 2 LCVs.

"Let's run it up the flag pole, and see who salutes it."
Authors who miss a Christmas deadline.

POMMReg wrote:"Train Stn" instead of "Rly Stn".

Keep up. It's "Station Stop" according to the guards, sorry train managers, on the TransPennine Express (the slow trains which join the towns of the Northern Powerhouse together)

Well, or should I say "SO" ?
A wonderful response chaps, however, I am flabbergasted nobody mentioned.............."Going Forward"

As a northerner with some knowledge on the subject , I can assure everyone that northern english is much closer to true original english than the southern version. The southern long vowels originated in the regency period when it was fashionable to adopt foppish french ways of pronunciation. Glass is pronounced how it looks. It is not glarss. One does not cut grarss.
Another that has crept into southern speak is pronouncing 'worry' wrong. Even on the Beeb they have started to pronounce it as rhyming with lorry. And don't get me started on using 'two times' instead of 'twice'
We all say Morris Minor correctly though...

Probably OK when referring to the two times table.

Also nearly everything in the speeches of Mr Cameron. Even by politician standards he seems to talk almost entirely in platitudes. I don't think posterity will rate him as one of the great political thinkers.

It drives me mad when people say barth instead of bath .Why is it that a lot of young people in London etc sound like they were born in the ghetto??with a weird accent

-----maybe they were.

Also nearly everything in the speeches of Mr Cameron. Even by politician standards he seems to talk almost entirely in platitudes

There's a more anglo-saxon term for it...

Think outside the box/moving the goalposts....

Personnel/Human Resources

Staff/Colleague

Poss locations of the Northern Powerhouse; a Crisp & snack manufacturer in Leicester or a call centre in Leeds.

The north/south pronunciation debate has got some mileage in it...
I know we will have to agree to differ on many words but I could never understand why the northern pronunciation of the word for a four string guitar is base and not bass

TDV102 wrote:As a northerner with some knowledge on the subject , I can assure everyone that northern english is much closer to true original english than the southern version. The southern long vowels originated in the regency period when it was fashionable to adopt foppish french ways of pronunciation. Glass is pronounced how it looks. It is not glarss. One does not cut grarss.
Another that has crept into southern speak is pronouncing 'worry' wrong. Even on the Beeb they have started to pronounce it as rhyming with lorry. And don't get me started on using 'two times' instead of 'twice'

We all say Morris Minor correctly though...

How long ago has 'Moggy' Minor been around though ? (May be wrong, but it seems often used instead of Morris Minor, even in classified ads and has been acceptable and regarded as an affectionate name ? )

Not so sure about 'Morry' ( quoted often by some overseas owners for some reason)

Choc a block when traffic is busy where did that come from

My all time favourite is - a 'brain fart'

not heard that one

Started to become popular with the up and coming young managers shortly before I took early retirement, thank goodness I'm out of it. My immediate boss was in that clique and he used to come up with all the 'speak', I just raised my eyebrows at him and said 'English please'. Being an old dinosaur I got away with it