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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:33:09 JST Paul Cantrell

   Paul’s emotional state when people mean the verb “use” and say…

   …“use” → okie dokie
   …“utilize” → annoyed
   …“leverage” → blarlRGLG

   I need a meme template to suit this thought. Please recommend.

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     maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:35:09 JST maya_b

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     @inthehands esp when use and utilize have very different meanings. usually indicates some just trying to sound fancy and ends up sounding properly useless

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:35:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     My special annoyance at “leverage” as a transitive verb is due to the fact that it already had a truly useful meaning — to extend the value of an existing asset by finding novel purposes for it — now diluted to near-oblivion by business-speak.

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:37:11 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • maya_b

     @maya_b
     How would you characterize the use / utilize distinction?

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     Byron :computerfairies: (level2wizard@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:37:44 JST Byron :computerfairies:

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     @inthehands give me a fulcrumage to go along with this leverage and I can moveage the worldage, I guess

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:37:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Byron :computerfairies:

     @level2wizard
     Wow, that’s a lot of syllableage

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     Cameron Watters (watters@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:39:15 JST Cameron Watters

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     @inthehands Anytime someone says "utilize" I can only ever hear Anthony Campos saying it in Idiocracy.

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     Byron :computerfairies: (level2wizard@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:41:49 JST Byron :computerfairies:

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     @inthehands this is a reverse drake with a third row

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:41:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Byron :computerfairies:

     @level2wizard
     Exactly, or reverse Georgi w/third

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     maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:42:23 JST maya_b

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     @inthehands
     you "use" something for its designed/intended purpose eg you use socks to cover and keep your feet warm.

     "utilizing" something is when you deploy that something in a way other than its design/intended manner eg. you utilize a sock as your bank and keep all your money stashed in it.

     now think of all the biz speak that instantly becomes absurd.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:42:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Hang on, need to pee, gonna go leverage the bathroom

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:52:47 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • maya_b

     @maya_b
     Interesting! Your distinction is close to how I think of use vs •leverage•. This usage note from the American Heritage is closer to how I think of “utilize.” A spectrum of understanding here, it seems!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:53:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Tyler Cohen

     @tylerzonia
     Increasing shareholder value by optimizing key performance indicators, obvs

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     Tyler Cohen (tylerzonia@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:53:41 JST Tyler Cohen

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     @inthehands but what will you. leverage your bathroom time for? ...?

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     maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:54:11 JST maya_b

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     @inthehands leveraging your socks as a safety deposit box 🤦♀️

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 09:54:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • maya_b

     @maya_b
     Technically correct, yet so horribly wrong

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:17:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Byron :computerfairies:

     OK, ran with the suggestion from @level2wizard and I think it clicks:

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     Michael Dekker (dekk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 10:56:53 JST Michael Dekker

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     @inthehands I’ll need to le^H^H use this at work.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 11:29:11 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Michael Dekker

     @dekk
     Please help spread this important message!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:59:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • maya_b

     @maya_b New data point: I posed use vs utilize to my wife last night (who is a word nerd), and she thought it was fuzzy and ventured a distinction very similar to yours! But when I gave her the AHD’s example of “unable to use / utilize the new computers,” she understood it as the dictionary posited. She had both distinctions in mind. Maybe a word that’s undergoing active change? Exciting!

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     maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 08:37:38 JST maya_b

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     @inthehands The computer example has been bugging me as there's more to a computer than simply the hardware.

     Generalised to tool does job then you can just as easily say the same thing with hammers teaching cabinet making. Is it that someone can't use a hammer to teach cabinet making, or that the hammer can't, with some weird reciprocating friction rig, cut through a piece of material.

     without programming skill, or educational software, a teacher could fail both the use/utilize scenarios