Actually....

[vorro.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but do callers say the word "Actually" a whole hell of a lot?

"Actually, I'm with department x, and..."

"Actually, I'm trying to install $SOFTWARE on...."

"Actually, my name is $NAME and I'm actually trying to..."

Your thoughts on this? Is there some word at your company that people say all the time?

Comments

[dusktodawn.livejournal.com]

two words "computer illiterate"

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Don't say that. I have this terrible habit of using "Actually" and I am certainly not computer illiterate. It's very easy to pick up a bad habit.

[dusktodawn.livejournal.com]

i wasn't saying using "Actually" was a means to determine someone is computer illiterate, I was saying that those two words are what i hear most often and I wish I didn't.

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

OH! I completely misunderstood what you meant.

[dusktodawn.livejournal.com]

heh s'ok. I probably should said "I hear ______ to often" :3

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

There is indeed, but I can't type it here in mixed company :)

[darquethoughts.livejournal.com]

I work with Citrix....

you wouldn't believe users butcher that word....

"The citrix" wonder if that's like "The Matix"
"citris"
"citerix"
and it just goes on.

[darkrose.livejournal.com]

I've had people say "initiate" or "italicize" instead of "initialize" (as in using a modem initialization string). That's the only one I can think of right off the top of my head.

[mrs-whiskerson.livejournal.com]

My colleague regularly tells users they are having 'authentification problems'. He is not joking.

[darkrose.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm pretty sure they're actually real live actual idiots. I think it's the same as the "um, er"-ers or "like"-ers. They're nervous that you may realize they're complete morons.

[kedemel.livejournal.com]

My old boss said "You know" a lot :P

[kuang.livejournal.com]

Bollocks

:)

[zzyzx.livejournal.com]

Actually, I haven't noticed anything like that.

[falnfenix]

i get a lot of "sooooo, yeah"

[jill-idle.livejournal.com]

some people are uncomfortable not saying something while they think. they want to communicate they are 'with you', haven't thought enough about what to say yet, so they spit out filler. even if it's just a millisecond they need.

[jjjiii]

It helps troubleshooting what they're actually trying to do as opposed to what they're virtually trying to do.

[sneezypb.livejournal.com]

All the IT tech grunts say, "As far as like that goes..." They then fall over laughing.

uh-oh who let the actually out?

[jayphi77.livejournal.com]

Actually = I'm better than you, smarter than you, you don't know what your talking about, you're a pee-on...i hate that word

but i hear it most from gamers while they are quoting some D&D book in their mom's basement at age 40.

[nyquilusa.livejournal.com]

"Do what now?"

It's really funny if you've ever watched the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Balloonenstein episode where Meatwad has the attention span of your average meat popsicle.

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

Some of the Indians I work with use that word to begin just about every sentence. It's a cultural thing.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen in linguistics studies, it's not just a word to fill space, but it's become something of corporate weaselspeak.

But yes. I tend to use it myself when correction misperceptions.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I worked for a while in a government department behind the counter, and one of the verbal tics that had to be beaten out of a lot of the newbies (including me) was the unconcious use of "obviously". We'd be talking to a client about their paperwork, while mentally running through the horribly complicated tree of if-then-else regulations, and thoughts like "well, they're in category Q23, so obviously that means they need form A46 which asks for X, Y and Z" would come out as "Well, obviously you need to provide X, Y and Z".

This pissed people off, because from their perspective it damn well wasn't freakin' obvious what they needed to do.

So yeah, the trainers tended to stomp on that one pretty hard.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Basically.

Basically, the problem is just basically that basically I can't get onto my computer, basically.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher at high school who used that in every second sentence. And he couldn't spell it, either.

[madeddy.livejournal.com]

I've taken a few interrogation courses aimed at law enforcement for work, and saying "actually" too much is supposed to be a sign that they're being deceptive.