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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“To agilitate future payments, xxxx has decided that you will be paid through direct transfers to personal accounts….” from an email in our accounting department.
I think this means to facilitate with agility.
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I don’t know…it could mean to agitate with litigation in some offices…, no that would be ag-lit-a-tate.
Still, I can see that one gaining some tracton in the commercial lexicon.
And before we start throwing stones at the language that comes up from the bean-counters department, imagine the fun they have with the creative accounting that rolls out of the advertising department.
Jay
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Nice bit of humor from Jay showing us the dangers of coining our own portmanteau words.
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