The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172874 Message #4213654
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
17-Dec-24 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves part II
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves part II
Fresh peeve: something being described as "actionable", when it's merely meant that some seldom-specified action can be taken about said thing. In my lexicon, "actionable" only ever pertains to things that yield lawsuits (sense 2 in the Wictionary entry); but perhaps that comes from reading Private Eye at a formative age, wherein Messrs Sue Grabbit and Runne feature heavily.
Is this yet more leakage of management memo-speak into real life? Would that this were actionable in the legal sense.