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[jadesfire]

The following is an acutal extract from the abstract of an article with the innocuous name "A window of opportunity: libraries in higher eduction."

"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."

I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...

Comments

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Leverage can be a verb? How does that work???

As in 'We must leverage our core competencies and synergistic partners to ensure stockholder value.' *shiver*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*puts hands over ears*

How can they do that to a poor defenceless little noun? I mean, it's bad enough when gerunds are abused, but they're a rare species and very few people have seen them in their natural habitat. But there's no excuse for that. *shudder*

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't have to go on LJ to find people slaughtering the written word. If the management isn't doing it on purpose, I can find plenty of engineers who couldn't string together a sentence to save their lives. Punctuation is a huge perk!

Don't get me started on the spoken language and pronunciation!

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Oh, that should be "... and our relationship with our synergistic partners..."

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

*runs away clutching dictionary for protection*