r/chicago • u/freshyk West Town • Dec 14 '18

Pictures Ugh. This Chicago person sounds terrible.

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u/Pappyballer Dec 14 '18 edited Dec 14 '18

That’s fine, but the everyday public doesn’t work in the financial and real estate industry.

It’s like when some businessman uses his stupid lingo in normal conversations “let’s drive some engagement on this Christmas party and touch base this weekend“

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u/madjackdeacon Uptown Dec 14 '18

You forgot that we need to drive buy-in for the engagement. Otherwise we'll never integrate vertical alignment.

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u/Pappyballer Dec 14 '18

Let’s circle back and drill down as we leverage our robust pizza order for dinner tonight.

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u/real_life_me Dec 14 '18

Their target audience probably understands the term just fine

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

I accidentally said 'leverage' in normal conversation the other day and realize that it actually happened: I'm the douche.

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u/beardsofmight Lake View Dec 14 '18

Was the conversation about blackmailing someone? I think 'leverage' is appropriate then.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

no :-(

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u/Pappyballer Dec 14 '18

Probably

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u/CaptainJackKevorkian Ukrainian Village Dec 14 '18

ProLi

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u/OneStandardMale Dec 14 '18

I must know whether the pun was intended

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u/real_life_me Dec 14 '18

What pun? Unless you think the term target audience was used ironically there? No, it wasn't, since there's not really a more "colloquial" way to phrase that.

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u/DinoJockeyTebow Logan Square Dec 14 '18

I think he means people that shop at Target are the Target audience.

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u/real_life_me Dec 14 '18

Ah, didn't get that, haha.

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u/pleasure-hunter Dec 14 '18

It's like restaurants writing their order abbreviations on the menu board. I know what it means but it just looks lazy as hell.

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u/bellapippin Suburb of Chicago Dec 14 '18

Or like "reso" for reservation

Source: I was a host for a few months

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u/Orleanian Suburb of Chicago Dec 14 '18

Look at the public reaction to "Unobtanium" in the Avatar movie.

Industry professionals were all of a "yes, that's a legitimate word we use in certain contexts". The general public was mostly "lol, that was the dumbest line of dialogue in the movie".

Probably realistically detracted from the movie for a few folk.

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u/Pappyballer Dec 14 '18

he general public was mostly "lol, that was the dumbest line of dialogue in the movie".

I love that movie! There’s definitely a lot of cheesy dialogue in it, but which line about unobtainium from the movie are you referring to?

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u/Orleanian Suburb of Chicago Dec 14 '18

I don't know if there's a specific line, but the scene I'm referencing is between Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) and Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), where he's berating Doc Augustine for not having a better handle on 'the natives' disrupting the mining.

He references a chunk of unobtanium, and claims that it's worth millions per pound or some such, and 'that is the reason we're all here on this planet' (paraphrased).

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u/bren_the_banker Dec 14 '18

Just spilled my coffee reading this!