I�ve been in meetings all day at work.
That�s what a lot of people do in business � from pseudo techno code crunchers like me to the management types.
In one meeting a man used the word Caveat.
He said, �Yes, but there�s a Caveat to that code standard.�
I wrote it down in my notebook because I knew what would happen - this kind of thing happens all the time.
In the next hour and a half beneath the word Caveat in my notebook, I had 8 tick marks.
Yes, from that one utterance of the word, it was used 8 more times by 5 different people.
I�m not joking.
After that, I didn�t speak in the meeting until I could use the word Caveat � but when I had my chance, I said �Yes, but there an Exception to that.� and I stressed the word Exception�
after I spoke no one was using the word Caveat anymore�
because you see, they were all using the word wrong, because the first guy sounded like he knew what he was talking about � he spoke aggressively and forcefully and then everyone else wanted to sound aggressive and forceful too,
because that�s how you get raises
unless your boss was an English major � like mine was - who just looked at me and smiled after my - at best - inconsequential contribution
and I guess that would be the real Caveat: to know what you are saying especially when you think it sounds good,
oh, and to know the College Major of your boss.
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