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Articol WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/05/16/the-69-words-you-cant-use-at-gm/

 

Articol AOL: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2014/05/20/words-general-motors-employees-can-never-say/

 

Among the words or phrases to be avoided in GM memos: Hindenburg, Kevorkianesque, Titanic, apocalyptic, Cobain, genocide, rolling sarcophagus.

 

That slide is a little hard to read, so here’s all 69 of them: always, annihilate, apocalyptic, asphyxiating, bad, Band-Aid, big time, brakes like an “X” car, cataclysmic, catastrophic, Challenger, chaotic, Cobain, condemns, Corvair-like, crippling, critical, dangerous, deathtrap, debilitating, decapitating, defect, defective, detonate, disemboweling, enfeebling, evil, eviscerated, explode, failed, flawed, genocide, ghastly, grenadelike, grisly, gruesome, Hindenburg, Hobbling, Horrific, impaling, inferno, Kevorkianesque, lacerating, life-threatening, maiming, malicious, mangling, maniacal, mutilating, never, potentially-disfiguring, powder keg, problem, rolling sarcophagus (tomb or coffin), safety, safety related, serious, spontaneous combustion, startling, suffocating, suicidal, terrifying, Titanic, unstable, widow-maker, words or phrases with a biblical connotation, you’re toast

 

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Rolling sarcophagus ? =))

 

Sunt curios cum ar spune ei "the car has a defective/faulty component.". Probabil ar fi ceva de genul "the car has a component that works, but in an other way than the one it was designed" :aloooecineva: , sau mai bine "the car has a buba" .

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Pai e o imagine in primu' link ... "defective" se zice ca e "does not perform to design" :)

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A, deci eram pe aproape :mrgreen:

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