I speaks betterer englishes than you

[thorfinn]

People just don't have vocabularies, these days. It annoys me.

...[ somebody rather high up at the client getting the report ]:
> Just wondering, why does the ... weekly report say "perspective"
> at the top?  Is it supposed to say "prospective'"?

...[ passes through 2 other humans before it gets to me ]...
...[ my response ]...

  perspective
       n 1: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what
            follows from the positivist view" [syn: {position}, {view}]
       2: the appearance of things relative to one another as
          determined by their distance from the viewer [syn: {linear
          perspective}]

  prospective
       adj 1: concerned with or related to the future; "prospective
              earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is
              solely prospective in operation" [ant: {retrospective}]
       2: anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students";
          "his prospective bride" [syn: {prospective(a)}]

I believe the ... weekly report is the former (sense 2), not the latter.

I can change it to just be "Summary", if that is less confusing.
Perspective is a rarely used word these days.  So is
prospective, for that matter.

Comments

prospective

[wibble.livejournal.com]

certainly in business prospective is used a lot.

'specially by sales folk.
that's if they've run out of wanky synonyms.