HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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One of the annoying corporate phrases that has become a plague here, leaking out into everyday speech, is "going forward". It drives me nuts hearing it. People don't say, "Next, we'll do this . . . " or "in future . . ." Instead, it's "Going forward . . . "
"Next" and "going forward" mean two completely different things. "Next" is a subsequent step in a process. "Going forward" refers to a change in a process. I guess you could say "in the future" rather than "going forward", but I personally don't get why one is more annoying than the other. If people said "in the future" all the time, it would probably be on this list instead of "going forward".