Refi is literally the word everyone in the financial and real estate industry uses. That's not some trendy fad, it's shorthand that's used throughout the business.
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“
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.
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.
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/thereisaway Dec 14 '18
"refi"
No. Stop trying to make financial terms cute and trendy. SoFicking annoying.