Letters to the Editor

I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide" And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too! By Cary Tennis [2007-07-18]

• I'm bugged by the imprecision, too.

  Here's a buzz word that's been around for decades and should be abolished: relationship. It's a perfect sound byte, for it suggests something definate ("we have a relationship") but is actually vague and contentless.

  Anything that is not completely removed from the sphere of human interaction counts as a thing you have a "relationship" with. From the pecil you used for five seconds at the library to your partner of 50 years. Some self help books think they are very wise in saying "Everything is about relationships" and suggest that somehow this expressess a deep connection or maybe even "oneness." It's an empty pointless word.

  Let's have marriages and romances and friendships and aquaintenceships, and dismiss this vague, empty term "relationship" forever.

  -- Christopher1988
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