I can listen to people scrape their fingernails on chalkboards (kids, ask your parents) all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t sounds and words that make my teeth hurt and make me nauseous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My example I have always hated the word “Document”, and all its uses and derivatives. Document? Documentation? Documentary? All of them. The only exception is the sentence “I just watched someone who overused the word ‘document’ get eaten by mice”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My worst boss ever was a (I’m not making this up) near-functional illiterate QA manager to whom the company’s benighted tech writers had to report. And she once described the tech writers’ job as to “document the documentation in the documents”. It wasn’t *that* episode, or the fact that she advocated changing the job title to “Documentalist”, that made her the worst boss ever – oh, Lord, no – but it put a cherry on top of the crap sundae that was that job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which is one of the reasons I tune out the radio when impeachment talk comes up Part of it is because Adam Schiff justifies retroactive bullying – but largely because if I hear another smug, sanctimonious voice saying “documents documents documents documents documents…” again I’m going to kick a puppy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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