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torpeau said:
In a similar vein is how often people incorrectly substitute "myself" for "me" or "I."
This is one of my biggest pet peeves ever! Has it ever been discussed on the show? I hear people using "myself" incorrectly constantly and I have a hard time holding myself back and not commenting on it.
lui said:
The pre-planning could perhaps be thought of as pre-problem or pre-event planning. So that if you are planning a response to a current problem or emergency you are 'planning' but if you are preparing for events which you think may happen in the future you are 'pre-planning'.
At my workplace, we do a lot of pre-planning. Even worse, we have "pre-meeting" meetings, which also makes little logical sense Luckily, we're in the legal department, so logic doesn't always matter 🙂 .
For us, a 'pre-" anything means that it is a discussion taking place in which no decisions will be made, because the authority isn't present (or isn't ready to make the decisions yet). For the actual planning meetings, the boss listens to all the possible ideas, and then decides on a particular course of action, thereby assuming the responsibility for the success or failure of the plan.
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