Going forward, can we please omit 'going forward'?
June 2, 2009 6:51 AM
Somewhat like the childhood game of Musical Chairs, there’s a point in the popularity arc of any cliché when it becomes so tiresome that anyone who continues to use it exposes himself as an insecure poser fabricating fake savvy.
The expression “going forward” reached that point last year, if not the year before that.
Yes, Einstein, we all know which way time flows, and you’re wasting ours. The future tense will invariably be used in the same sentence, making “going forward” redundant.
Wipe out these word-weeds.
I'll do my best, but at the end of the day if you have an axe to grind you may be adding insult to injury thinking you can do it across the board.
Please tell me you didn't just go there.
I want to expand this movement to also eliminate "It is what it is."
I agree whole heartedly!...let's add ..."at the end of the day" too (trendy buzzwords) -E
Personally, I am liable to strangle the next person who says "It's all good!" as they try to con themselves into believing that some lousy circumstance isn't really so lousy. Going forward, no one should say that anymore.
I agree with the elimination of "It is what it is", with the exception of the excellent Steve Forbert tune of the same name from the mid-90s.