PHRASE | ACTUAL MEANING | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do you mind if I drive? | You dont know what you're doing and im getting really impatient |
| 2 | What's your point of difference? | That is an unoriginal and uninspiring idea... try again. |
| 3 | In my View… | I know best |
| 4 | I know right | Some awkward social saying that popped up out of nowhere in 2018-2019 that everybody is now saying for no some unexplained reason |
| 5 | That’s exactly right | I just want this conversation to end |
| 6 | I just want to touch base | -Possibly innapropriote, but never is -trying to make a boring meeting sound exciting... like playing baseball |
| 7 | How are you going? | Hurry the F#$%! up, I need you to do some work for me. |
| 8 | Did you get my email? | You did recieve my email but havent responded |
| 9 | Public Realm | I don't have a design, just make it look good |
| 10 | So... Are you gonna use those houses I made you? | After a week modelling a few houses, on our request, the intern kid uttered the immortal words. The answer was no. |
| 11 | Can you make that more transparent? | Hide the building we haven't designed yet |
| 12 | Needs more activation | The architecture is crap/non-existent, hide it with people |
| 13 | Can you activate? | |
| 14 | That's a good start | Usually heard after an all nighter |
| 15 | Guestimate | fudge, cheat, lie |
| 16 | Save it | If you fail, don't say i didn't warn you |
| 17 | Make it better | |
| 18 | Im just trying to help | I've got nothing better to do than comment on someone elses failures |
| 19 | On the same page | I know best |
| 20 | At the end of the day | I win, my word is the final word |
| 21 | Can you make that more moody | |
| 22 | Can it accommodate a live load? | ... |
| 23 | Can you make that more heroic | add a lens flare to make it look like we designed something really cool |
| 24 | Fast track it | hurry the F#$%! up |
| 25 | The Audi of architecture | The Aldi of architecture (inside joke) |
| 26 | If the shaft size is to go up | ... |
| 27 | That's precisely correct | |
| 28 | Absolutely awesome | |
| 29 | The reality is | I win, my word is the final word |
| 30 | Can't you open it up and just push render? | I'm trying to make the task sound easy to take the shock of reality away |
| 31 | That’s some of your best work | Patronising encouragement (normally spoken by Simon Haussegger) |
| 32 | Save to central | No idea... something architects seem to do a lot |
| 33 | ….so…are you….gonna use the houses I made? | Dissapointed work experience kid.. |
| 34 | how hard is it to... | followed by a really hard thing to do |
| 35 | Do you want me to do it? | -you dont know what you're doing and im getting really impatient, -hurry the F#$%! up. -I know best -There's no way I want to do it but i just want to scare you into doing it yourself |
| 36 | we need a few more renders, can't you just lower your settings? | I'm being unreasonable but I'm trying to make it look like you're being unreasonable. |
| 37 | It is what it is | i don't like it, there's no hope |
| 38 | Surely you can do better than that?? | |
| 39 | Are you still working on that job ?!? | hurry the F#$%! up We hardly ever talk so I'm just going to make some small talk |
| 40 | Hasn't that already been built? | Why are you still working on that you slow bastard.../ we told the builder to start building before we finished the design |
| 41 | Where the f@#$ is my render?? | |
| 42 | Can you save that out as at a higher resolution ? | ... 😐 |
| 43 | We can't spend too much time on this | -hurry the F#$%! up -I don't want to get in trouble and I'm covering my own ass -I've already blown the budget on design and poor management |
| 44 | We need to do a quick render | -can we have the world in 10 seconds -I know it wont be a quick render but i'm trying to fool you into thinking this will be an easy task |
| 45 | Moving forward | your're getting nowhere |
| 46 | We need to accentuate and articulate it | YOU need to accentuate and articulate it because I haven't done it |
| 47 | "We need to" .... | YOU need to |
| 48 | more trees, more people | we didn't design a facade.... |
| 49 | can't you just photoshop it ? | trivialising a major task or design issue |
| 50 | from an erection point of view | .... |
| 51 | from a urinal perspective | |
| 52 | That looks too architectural | There is no design |
| 53 | Don't touch my screen | I'm trying to divert the topic away from this annoying conversation |
| 54 | Are you coming in on the weekend? | come in on the weekend, this isn't gonna get there |
| 55 | Can you stay back tonight ? | stay back tonight otherwise we will lose the project and I'll look really bad |
| 56 | Need more green | hide the building we haven't designed/modelled yet |
| 57 | That'll get there | I don't like it ...yet but i'm not going to do anything to make it better |
| 58 | This isn't going to get there | -that will get there , hurry the F#$%! up -I'm scaring you into performing beyond your capabilities |
| 59 | That should be a 15 minute exercise | hurry the F#$%! up |
| 60 | The Oce colorwave is offline | |
| 61 | Please hold off on printing | |
| 62 | Can anyone see david king ? (The IT guy that was never there) | |
| 63 | Can you render that in the background | Hurry the F#$%! up i've got an unachievable amount of work due NOW |
| 64 | In the public gaze | |
| 65 | Unparalleled operation | |
| 66 | That has to be a full spread | |
| 67 | The New public image | |
| 68 | The ideal floorplate | Ideal, not according to the people actually using the floorplate, but ideal for the stingy developer |
| 69 | The new times square | Everyone in the room knows fair and well that we are not creating anything remotely close to the equivalent of the actual Times Square in NYC |
| 70 | Spearhead | |
| 71 | The democratic floorplate | |
| 72 | That's the worst render I've ever seen.. Ever. | |
| 73 | What's that furry Muppett? The boss referring to a green wall in a render | |
| 74 | You wouldn't want to be there | We forgot to design something nice |
| 75 | That building looks shit (heard more often than you'd think) | |
| 76 | The architecture looks shit house | |
| 77 | the 3D's don't do it justice | I F@#$ed up but i'll blame it on something else |
| 78 | public realm | A place where people are |
| 79 | sitting proud | |
| 80 | gangway moment | |
| 81 | That dogs breakfast is a building (JH) | |
| 82 | Does your image communicate permiability? | |
| 83 | is it pourous? | |
| 84 | Smoke and mirrors | just make it look good...I don't even know what day of the week it is... |
| 85 | Can you just import the Revit model? | |
| 86 | Can we change this to a dusk shot? | Our design looks bad in the day, quick turn off the lights.. |
| 87 | I like kids and all, but... | You shouldn't be at the birth of your first child, you really should be in this meeting |
| 88 | that person's a bit big.. | we designed a sh!tty, small, horrible space to be in |
| 89 | I'm no expert but... | I think I'm pretty damn good |
| 90 | The pest control man is in the building | weekly email |
| 91 | Get it squared away | get it done.. I think, in a six sided way.. |
| 92 | Get it over the line | If we're lucky enough we might actually get away with creating a pile of sh!t |
| 93 | The whole Shebang | everything |
| 94 | You can take a horse to water, but if you hold it's head under for too long, it'll die.. | no idea... scares me to this day... |
| 95 | It takes two hours, to render one monkey. | long story.. |
| 96 | Yes, that's exactly right | I'm so nervous that the director will think i don't know what im talking about so i'll over express my certainty |
| 97 | I thought I did a really good job.. oh well... | If at first you don’t succeed.. |
| 98 | we need this render at 300dpi | |
| 99 | I don't mean it rudely but.... | What I'm about to say is rude, but because I said it's not at the start of my sentence it isn't.. |
| 100 | That's a fundamental quantum shift there | I moved the file |
| 101 | It is what it is | We'll have a look on Tuesday |
| 102 | Can you add more cultural diversity? | Only cultures that are deemed socially and professionally acceptable in the mainstream trends (no Russians) |
| 103 | Can we try a different view? | oh no, I had no idea my design was that bad, quick, change the view and that'll fix everything |