{"id":24993,"date":"2007-09-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/09\/25\/microspeak-going-forward\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070925-00\/?p=24993","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Going forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The jargon phrase <i>going forward<\/i> has largely replaced the more mundane equivalent <i>from now on<\/i>. It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10787_3-5873552.html\"> I&#8217;m not the only person who is bothered by this phrase<\/a>. Sample usages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We discussed the membership and timeframe for support team meetings     going forward. <\/li>\n<li>There will be change to the status reports going forward. <\/li>\n<li>Going forward we will be doing this for every milestone. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Notice that the phrase <i>going forward<\/i> usually adds little to the sentence. You can delete it from all of the sentences above and nobody would notice a difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jargon phrase going forward has largely replaced the more mundane equivalent from now on. It appears that I&#8217;m not the only person who is bothered by this phrase. Sample usages: We discussed the membership and timeframe for support team meetings going forward. There will be change to the status reports going forward. Going forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-24993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The jargon phrase going forward has largely replaced the more mundane equivalent from now on. It appears that I&#8217;m not the only person who is bothered by this phrase. Sample usages: We discussed the membership and timeframe for support team meetings going forward. There will be change to the status reports going forward. Going forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}