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Moving forwards

Moving forwards

Moving forwards

(OP)
Is it just where I work or has this phrase taken over everywhere?  And it's always said in a kind of condescending way too.

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It is everywhere.

I would like to know as opposed to what? backwards, sideways, diagonally?

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Moving forward would be relative to what ever direction you are facing.  What grates on my nerves is the "s" added at the end.  Is there more than one forward?

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(OP)
"Moving forwards" could actually be some kind of football term used to describe striker reloaction.

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ewh, as adverbs both versions are accepted in some cases. As a noun, forwards, are, in some games (eg, rugby) the players who attempt to score.



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Yes.  I wasn't considering all cases, only directions, such as "He walked forward(s)."

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Another one I hear a lot is "anyways". It's "anyway". It's also annoying to hear all the time.

Chris
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25362:  Just to pick a nit...

In my experienced rugby forwards tend to lie in a big sweaty heap in the middle of the field while it's the backs that score winky smile

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As I remember, third line forwards (blindside flankers) plus backs and wingers are generally the try scorers. My experience many many years ago ended quickly and unhappily blush after suffering a few tackles and with them my memory of the game.

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whilst we've diverted into a rugby thread ...
remember, the lower the number, the nearer to god
or else an inverse relationship to the number of hair care products in your kit bag.

cheers

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Please pardon my ignorance, but did somebody say rugby is a game?

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quark (Mechanical)
Maybe you never played it, or (Horrors) maybe you did.

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i'd say that it is "the" game ...

not like that "silk short sport" with more acting than an afternoon soap

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I haven't noticed it used much with my Canadian colleagues.

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RE: Moving forwards

"Forwards" is in the dictionary, under "forward," but it is a secondary use that the dictionary is acknowledging to exist.  (This is other than the definition of "forward" as a noun, describing a player in a game like rugby, in which case, more than one player would be "forwards" as is already noted in this thread.)

I ahven't noticed a proliferation of the use "forwards" in my circles - maybe it's a regional use that is growing in popularity.  We may yet get it here.

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This is what I refer to as "Business Speak."  The phase "moving forward" or as I have also heard it "going forward" has infiltrated most companies just as the phrase "bling" has infected our youths vernacular.  My wife's company filled with MBA's hear and regurgitate these phrases.  The admin staff have been keeping track of the new ones.

Jordan

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It is excellent business speak indeed. Keep moving "forward" and if ever you blunder, then you simply move "beyond". Anything except standstill.

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Since you can't stand still, maybe you can stand firm?

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or fall down (like Michael Douglas)

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Should and do firms stand firm?

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I played rugby for several years at school/college/university.

I was a blindside flanker when playing seriously and never scored at that position (I was great defensively but couldn't catch a cold let alone a 20 ft, off target spin pass which somewhat limited my career I did score the day all the backs were ill and so the reserve forwards got to play and I think the coach picked our positions by lots.  I was outside Centre and scored so I now have the unshakeable opinion it’s easier for backs to score than forwards)

In girlie football (by which I mean soccer not that other girlie football where you have to wear helmets and pads and throw the ball forward) the forwards typically score.  In proper manly, Rugby Football the backs tend to score more.  One of many ways in which Rugby is the opposite of Soccer.

Rugby team has 8 forwards and 7 girls, sorry backs.  I guess in an advancing rolling mall you could correctly say “The forwards are moving forwards”

If we're all thinking outside of the box then moving forwards we should be able to find a synergistic solution to the current challenge.

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I'll bet you wouldn't call it girlie American football if you were standing next to a 300 pound lineman.

It seems within the last 6 months that my favorite boss has started the habit of describing his intentions as a a "going-forward plan".  (Is there any other kind of plan?)

I haven't heard  the term "going-forwards" (with an "s") yet. That would be even more annoying.

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electricpete, I guess if your boss is sufferring remorse, then he'd be needing a going-backward plan?

rofl

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I'll bet you wouldn't call it girlie American football if you were standing next to a 300 pound lineman.

Have done before "moving forwards" I probably will again.

Do the same people use "outside of the box" as "moving forwards" or is that pase (imagin an accute accent above the e) now.

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I frequently hear "Anyway, moving forward" from the lips of weak managers engaged in an argument they can't win by logic or reason, but on which they are unwilling or afraid to give ground. A couple of times I have said something along the lines of "No, let's stay right here until this is sorted out". I don't like safety problems being swept under some convenient carpet.

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In my understanding moving forwards means to advance.

In a game, troops in the war, they advance or "they move forwards" slowly or faster in a straight or diagonal line according the moment situation.  

luis

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Interesting... in context, the term "moving forward" seems to be a misnomer. When discussing some certain aspect on some given topic, when the discussion stalls or strays off subject, that is when the phrase comes about in the case of stalling out, "back up and regroup (retreat)," or "lets change the subject" might be more applicable. In the case of the discussion moving "off target," a sideways adjustment to the oblique might be a more accurate statement.

On the other hand, given a linear agenda, "moving forward" might simply mean that given the alloted time, we need to move on to the next subject. "Moving on," I like that much better.

"Moving on," hmmm, how does one do that!? smile

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Actually, the context in which I hear, "moving" or going forward is not an attempt to change the discussion but rather give a directive that will be valid in the future.  Example:  Moving forward we will be buying product XYZ from company ABC.

Jordan

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woodengineer,

that seems to be how I've heard it too.

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Me too... except the phrase I hear is "going forward" vs "moving forwards".

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RE: Moving forwards

Here are some other fun overused MBA Business Speak and there meanings:

Boiling the Ocean - To do an extroadinary amount of work (often without focus or structure) to answer a question.

Circle back (bounce) - To speak with someone again about a given issue.

Fishing Expedition - Looking for something useful, interesting, or insightful in a data set that is unlikely to yield any of these things.

Hard back end (Hard stop) - The real (as opposed to scheduled) time when an activity needs to be complete.

Leverage - What you do with item X (knowledge, relationship, skill set, etc) to help increase the chance to accomplish/succeed with activity Y.

Out-of-pocket - Have heard it mean both traveling and busy.  (Different from out-of pocket expense)

Peel the onion - Revisit an issue and (attempt to) get to the next level deeper.

Tea & biscuits - A talk/interview/discussion that isn't helping you get any closer to the answer you want.

Jordan

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I like that!?- "peel the onion". It means that to go to the next level deeper, you have to cry.

luis


cry

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The phrase "out of pocket" means unavailable where I work.

If someone took half a day off to go to the dentist and doesn't plan to be reachable by cell phone, he's out of pocket.

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RE: Moving forwards

Out of pocket:
http://www.word-detective.com/012000.html

I always used it for the money sense, and it still bothers me to hear it for the availability sense.  But I don't have a leg to stand on if I object to that use; it's here to stay.

Hg

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