Community
Awareness
Opportunity
Explore
Bring together
Initiative
Participating
Networking
...of these, "community" takes the cake. What do you even mean when you say "providing the community with this opportunity"? Do you mean you're going to let the 5-year-olds that live in your town have their share of the grant funding? What about the owner of the old barbershop that could use the money, but isn't actually eligible because it's not really open to business entities? Where or who exactly is your "community"?
It's such a broadly used word that it requires further definition - but that definition is rarely, if ever, spelled out. I see this all the time in print journalism, and I'm left wondering what common characteristic or interest is defining the "community" under consideration.
Maybe everybody should just re-read George Orwell's Politics and the English Language.
Awareness
Opportunity
Explore
Bring together
Initiative
Participating
Networking
...of these, "community" takes the cake. What do you even mean when you say "providing the community with this opportunity"? Do you mean you're going to let the 5-year-olds that live in your town have their share of the grant funding? What about the owner of the old barbershop that could use the money, but isn't actually eligible because it's not really open to business entities? Where or who exactly is your "community"?
It's such a broadly used word that it requires further definition - but that definition is rarely, if ever, spelled out. I see this all the time in print journalism, and I'm left wondering what common characteristic or interest is defining the "community" under consideration.
Maybe everybody should just re-read George Orwell's Politics and the English Language.
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Mom: Haha, I knew I was missing one!
I just thought of another one, too: Moment. At this moment.... I'm thinking how much I hate that phrase. But that stems from overuse by a college chaplain. :P