Comment Re:Lost for words (Score 1) 324
Yet, here you are, wetting your pants over people wanting to use different words to make others feel more comfortable.
They only feel more comfortable because they don't know what the word means. When they learn that it is the same as "feedback", thither comes the list of things the boss wants me to improve, they will feel the same stress. Thank you for showing that advocates are morons.
And the replacement is only a thing because they are using the original word incorrectly.
"Feedback" is only harsh in places where the content of the feedback is always harsh or negative. In the traditional sense, feedback can also be positive. In companies where management never bothers to give employees any positive feedback, over time, feedback will come to mean negative feedback, and will eventually begin to have a negative connotation.
Poor management practices have ruined a perfectly cromulent word. Rather than fix their practices, they would rather replace the ruined word with a new one. That they will also ruin.