[Gllug] Re: Gates to get Knighthood!!! (Andrew Halliwell)

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Thu Mar 3 15:11:51 UTC 2005


And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> 
> 
> Doug Winter writes:
> 
> >Their leveraging of Windows into the office software market [...]
> 
> The word for which you're looking is "levering". "Leveraging"
> only exists in managementspeak. "Lever" is both a verb and a
> noun. "Leverage" is only a noun (for now, at least).
> 
> Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves.

Couldn't agree more. Hate all those gus hedgesisms...
(If you remember drop the dead donkey, you'll know what I mean)
:)

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