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Can someone provide an example of corporate speak? I'm trying to picture how it would be used outside the work/corporate context.
I'm imagining something like, "let's unpack that idea to create more synergy, otherwise we'll be in the weeds with our action items" but I doubt that's what the OP meant.
I'm going to suspect that she isn't interested in a relationship where she has to pretend to be stupid just to protect the man's ego.
Right off the starting line, she is screening for a partner who can understand basic English. There's no point in continuing a conversation with anyone who can't hold a conversation. You, OP, don't want a woman who can speak and she doesn't want a man who can't speak, so there is no reason to continue past the first few notes.
Wow, you know I also have a problem with salty peope like you that offer nothing positive to threads.
Ha! Yes! Stickler with an "L." A sticker... bahahaha.
I gotta love the multiple commas. I mean, really, it's creative. I have to wonder why or how it became a thing, though. I've only seen it used here.
Multiple commas are weird. I knew a really crazy drug addict who used to use them, along with random caps-lock, all the time. Now they just make me think of him. He was really nuts. Died in a car wreck a few years ago, poor guy. I actually had made him a friendship bracelet one year for Christmas to encourage him in his rehab.
Anyways.
I like ellipses though... But then I'm also prone to pauses when I speak, so it's part of my thought/speech pattern and it makes sense for me. I do try to mix up my use of hypens, ellipses, commas, and occasionally even semicolons (which I know how to properly use) so as not to be tiresome and repetitive in my punctuation efforts. Wouldn't want that.
First off, there are women, and then there are resentful women who just have a chip on their shoulder because "my penis is bigger than any man's", and then there are women who really have learned the hard way to be a bit defensive.
With regard to that -- hey, people are people so whatcha gonna do? There's NO SUCH THING as good men or good women, there's only good and bad people, period. When you find good ones, stick around. When you find bad ones, don't get bent out of shape, just move on. Not everybody likes everybody else and that's a fact. Life is too short to waste time with them.
As for the "corporate talk" in the DC area...
Some people put on a show.
Some people really just talk that way, it's habitual and it's part of who they really are.
Once more, whatcha gonna do?
As for the woman herself and her questions regarding whether you've ever dated a black woman...
In this case I cannot make any judgment call which is do-all, be-all, end-all; but I will say that black women who are successful in the business or corporate world have a LOT to deal with, and in my experience it quite understandably takes some time for them to lower their guard. Some of them never do, not ever. Others get past it.
One thing you've got to understand with a lot of black women who are educated and who pursue success is that they're actually fighting an uphill battle which consists not only of vying for success (an uphill battle for anyone) but doing so against the grain of general black culture.
I just know someone will leap on that, suggesting I'm saying black culture is generally unsuccessful. I'm not saying that -- BUT...
When a black man pursues success, he is to be admired per the social purview. It is wrong and silly to say he is "rising above his culture", when in fact he's just a good man trying to do a good job, and that should be the end of it. So he's both insulted and admired, all at once, sort of a back-handed compliment.
When a black woman pursues success in most regions -- and believe me, regionality DOES come into play heavily -- she is seen as more "pragmatic to the point of ruthlessness". Black women have been assigned this sort of televised, pre-scripted larger-than-life embodiment. They are supposed to be overtly-voluptuous, filled with head-twirling-on-neck attitude, hyper-sexualized yet bluntly discerning even to the point of a callous meanness -- and that's just ridiculous!
Unfortunately, even many black men have assigned this quality. It's accepted among lower economic classes, put on as a ready display; and the moment a black woman wants to rise above it, she's "CHASING MONEY", not just a good woman trying to do a good job.
When a black man pursues an interracial relationship, he's assigned the ridiculous status of either "achieving status" OR (dear God, shaking my head) "preying on white women". For all that, it's still not only more accepted but gaining ground as a "norm".
When a black woman shows interest in an interracial relationship she's assigned these AND lambasted by other blacks as a "self-hater" and a "race-hater" and "betraying her own". And these never seem to go away for her.
Black women who have experienced this have also generally experienced something which comes to seem to them less men of other races being genuinely interested in them AS A PERSON, AS A COMPANION, but more "ooooo, the darker the berry the sweeter the juice". They find men interested in them sexually, and NO ONE intelligent wants to be "the forbidden fruit" instead of a beloved partner or companion.
So they have a LOT of crap to deal with, and when a man of another race shows interest then while it's presumptive on the part of the black woman to believe that man is showing misguided interest rather than genuine, experience has often taught them to approach with caution.
Why?
Because they may catch disappointment from the man; they likely WILL catch some hell from their friends and family, and they're already coping with an assigned image from society that tries to pigeon-hole who they are as a person in a very graphic way.
I'd be cautious too, and if I'd seen enough of it I'd be pretty tight-lipped and blunt in my wariness.
I really appreciate this! Really good read, thank you.
Multiple commas are weird. I knew a really crazy drug addict who used to use them, along with random caps-lock, all the time. Now they just make me think of him. He was really nuts. Died in a car wreck a few years ago, poor guy. I actually had made him a friendship bracelet one year for Christmas to encourage him in his rehab.
Anyways.
I like ellipses though... But then I'm also prone to pauses when I speak, so it's part of my thought/speech pattern and it makes sense for me. I do try to mix up my use of hypens, ellipses, commas, and occasionally even semicolons (which I know how to properly use) so as not to be tiresome and repetitive in my punctuation efforts. Wouldn't want that.
But you use ellipses correctly.
You don't type like this... And end every clause with them... Because you probably realize that makes the reader wonder if you are Jeff Goldblum... Lol... Rofl... Qwertyuiop
Everyone makes mistakes. There are days when I splice the **** out of my sentences, and days when I use no commas at all. Most of it isn't a big deal. Just don't write like you are about to fly over the cuckoo's nest.
Can someone provide an example of corporate speak? I'm trying to picture how it would be used outside the work/corporate context.
In the case of the guy I mentioned, it was saying things like "this seems like a good idea unless the wheels come off". Or using the word "takeaway" with reckless abandon. I knew we were done though when he actually used the phrase "tapping my resources" in casual conversation.
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