[Editors] Utilize this!

[Michael Mack]

Utilize utilize when you tell lies.


--Michael Mack


Quoting Michael L Harrington <marypo64 at MIT.EDU>:

> Be sure to utilize caution when encountering errant Lexicons next
> week (March 17).
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> Behalf Of Susan I. Shansky
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:53 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Editors] Utilize this!
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> I can't orientate myself to the utilization of this lexicon.
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Nicole M Malec wrote:
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> Yes, use-r friendly. ;)
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> Happy Friday.
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> -Nicole
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Scott R Campbell wrote:
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> That would be utilizable information...
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> On 3/12/10 10:44 AM, "Lily Underwood Burns"
> <lub at MIT.EDU<x-msg://119/lub@MIT.EDU>> wrote:
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> Thank you so much - and thank you everyone for sending along such
> useful information!
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> Have a fantastic weekend,
>
> Lily
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Marilyn C Wilson wrote:
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> Dear Editors,
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> For your Friday morning mild amusement --
>
> I just had yet another annoying encounter with the word "utilize"
> which seems more and more commonly used in sentences where the word
> "use" is the better choice.
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> So I went to the Internet to see if others share my reaction, and of
> course there is quite a bit written about it!  In case you are
> interested, here's one example, from the blog of a man named Bob
> Sutor:http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=4227
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> "Use" vs. "Utilize"
> This entry is one in a series that tackles issues of proper word use
> and grammar in English.
>
> The incorrect yet increasingly common use of "utilize" instead of the
> simpler "use" is well documented in several places around the web.
> See, for example,
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> Indeed, utilize can often be no more than a pretentious substitute
> for use, and this should be avoided. However, utilize does have its
> own meaning: 'to turn to profitable use; to make a practical use
> for'. This is not the same sense as 'to bring into service', which is
> what use fundamentally means.
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> at Random House <http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980828> .
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> When words such as these are used incorrectly, the people to whom you
> are speaking may think:
>
>
> *   you are ignorant of the definition of the word, so what else is
> wrong in what you are saying?
> *   you are using a pretentious "big word" to sound more
> sophisticated than you are
> *   you are slipping into jargon and can't explain something in simple terms
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> None of these reflect well on you as a speaker, a writer, or as a
> communicator in general.
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> Here's some guidance:
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> *   If you are about to say "utilize" but "use" would work just as
> well, then say "use."
> *   If you previously thought something was useless, but you got
> clever and now it isn't, you are utilizing it.
>
>
> Note that outside the United States, "utilize" will likely be spelled
> "utilise."
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> Have a great weekend all!
> Marilyn
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