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Subject:Re: "Utilize" From:Mark Boyer <MBoyer -at- BANYAN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:17:55 EST
Absolutely right.
I'll go further. In 99% of the cases, "use" is preferable to "utilize."
Now if we can only get people to stop using "oftentimes."
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From: Emily Skarzenski <eskarzenski -at- dttus -dot- com>, on 2/23/96 10:29 AM:
> "Utilize" in reference to people really annoys me.
I'm waiting for the day when, sitting in a movie theater, I hear one
spurned, lovesick character yell angrily to another, "You utilized
me!"
Emily M. Skarzenski
Deloitte & Touche/ICS - Chadds Ford, PA
eskarzenski -at- dttus -dot- com
