Useless Term
I recently read a press release about a company I thought was quite good. “Thought” being the operative word.
In it, they said they wanted to”spread their services to all corners of the globe”.
Now normally since we hear this term often we think nothing of it. But if you think about it with the same amount of brain power it takes to estimate a waiters tip, you’ll see that it is a misnomer and a fairly un-intelligent thing to say.
A globe, in fact, has no corners. It has no sides either. It’s a globe. A spherical shape that technically has no beginning or end. So why do we keep saying it?
A better way to say it is “all parts of the globe” or, to be melodramatic, “to the far reaches of the world”. At least that way one would be factually correct.
Just a random thought to get your brain juices working.
-Cheers
