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Old 07-Aug-2004, 10:04
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"Please be assured that I am escalating this interaction to the concerned department for initiating proactive approaches on improving this feature."

In response to a customer complaint about their email account.
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Written by a lawyer or someone anal retentative. Oops - same thing? lol

I think it is meant to impress, but it really doesn't.
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What does it have to do with being anal retentive? (yes, I know the expression, lol)
IMO this is just business verbiage riddled (by definition) with buzzwords. And they talk all day long about communication skills *sigh*.

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It's pretty grim.
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I am used to listening to this kind of speeches.
You should listen to my proffesors at the university !
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What's your degree in?
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I am going to start my last (?) year in Computing Engineering.
Some of my teachers boast about their knowledge and use as many technical words as they can.
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I don't mind technical terms when there is a need- but this sentence is just unnecessarily wordy.
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