Words and phrases I'm getting tired of hearing
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From: Sun★Works
Originally Posted by magician,Nov 5 2009, 11:16 AM
On a <fill in your favorite adjective> basis.
Do people no longer understand adverbs?
If you mean that something happens daily, say that it happens daily, not "on a daily basis".
If you mean something happens regularly, say that it happens regularly, not "on a regular basis".
If you mean that something happens monthly, or as needed, or occasionally, or whatever (I know, I know), then say so. If you want to discuss returns before taxes, or after taxes, then say "returns before taxes", or "returns after taxes" (or "pretax returns" and "after-tax returns", respectively), not "returns on a pre-tax basis", or "returns on an after-tax basis".
I tell my students that if I had ever hear the word "basis" come out of their mouths they had better mean "a linearly independent set of vectors that spans a vector space".
Do people no longer understand adverbs?
If you mean that something happens daily, say that it happens daily, not "on a daily basis".
If you mean something happens regularly, say that it happens regularly, not "on a regular basis".
If you mean that something happens monthly, or as needed, or occasionally, or whatever (I know, I know), then say so. If you want to discuss returns before taxes, or after taxes, then say "returns before taxes", or "returns after taxes" (or "pretax returns" and "after-tax returns", respectively), not "returns on a pre-tax basis", or "returns on an after-tax basis".
I tell my students that if I had ever hear the word "basis" come out of their mouths they had better mean "a linearly independent set of vectors that spans a vector space".
