# Corporate Speak That Pisses You Off **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-speak-that-pisses-you-off/928852 "2020-12-24T23:02:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-speak-that-pisses-you-off/928852/52 "2020-12-25T21:18:50Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Which demonstrates that “paying” is not mutually exclusive with “guest”. But we have another word for that which is “customer.” This definition has thus destroyed the term “guest” and deprived it of any meaning. If you knocked on my door right now and pointed at my mother in law, and I said she was a guest, would you believe I had charged her for admission? You would not. If I said she was a customer, you would believe that I had charged her. Regardless of dictionary definitions, that is the common understanding of the difference in those terms. Otherwise, we might as well eliminate the word “guest” from our language. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-speak-that-pisses-you-off/928852)._