Moving Forward. Or not. (A public service announcement from a frustrated English teacher)
For a while
now I’ve been getting annoyed when I read the phrase ‘moving forward.’ I see it
in sentences such as, ‘What we aim to be
doing moving forwards is to provide you with the same useful information
but in a new place.’
What annoys me is that this phrase,
moving forward, is one that people are using because they see others using it.
What they’re missing is that it isn’t necessary. Take the phrase out (‘What
we aim to be doing is to provide you with the same useful information but
in a new place’) at the context of the sentence, let alone the tense, does the
job for you.
If you find yourself writing ‘moving
forward’, try cutting it out and see what happens.
Clarity in language is important,
especially in times like these.
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