All part of the fun of traveling.

Either that, or I am keeping very good company.

You can get the PDF version of the Sydney note from here. I’m not sure if they went through with handing them out at the bus, but it would’ve been a great sight to see if they did. Fantastic work.

Kiwi by Sh0dan

After listening to myself speak constantly for a week while doing training recently, I’ve come to the the rather obvious realisation that my use of language, well, sucks pretty hard. My knowledge of language is fine, better than fine, really – I’m an editor, it’s my job. However, my day-to-day speech, and even that used while giving presentations and training, is atrocious.

Therefore, I present a short list of words and phrases I will be actively avoiding, in the interest of my own self-respect and out of consideration to anyone else in earshot. Think of it as a Language Diet. I won’t be losing weight, but I’ll feel a hell of a lot better about myself. Please feel free to join me in this journey of self-improvement or suggest anything else that needs to be added, I’m sure there’s a whole lot more that can be put on the list. Here we go:

• Like
• Stuff
• Guys
• Yeah
• Nah
• It’s like
• Hey
• And all that
• And everything
• Stuff like that
• With respect to
• In terms of
• Soooo
• Um
• And then
• Goes
• Awesome
• You know
• Obviously
• Affect
• Particularly
• I
• Uh huh
• I reckon
• Sweet
• I see what you’re saying
• Oh, ok
• In that
• Doin’
• Whatever
• Yeah, coz
• Yeah, but
• ‘Spose
• Like (again, because it needs to be here twice)

This should limit my conversations somewhat, but I also think it could act like an 80/20 filter: I’d wager that 80% of what comes out of my mouth is on that list, while the other 20% is probably what I’m trying to say in the first place. Next up is gross overuse of commas…

Coming soon to a peak-hour City Loop station near you…

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