"He made a difference."
Is the first speaker a good person? Did the "he" of the second quote do something good? Impact is not always good: a boxer impacts his opponent. Making a difference is not always good: Hitler made a difference.
It seems that some folks figure that Legislatures need to pass laws. And it seems that it really doesn't matter whether the laws are good or bad as long as the lawmakers are busy "making an impact" and "making a difference".
Please don't "impact" me; I don't like being hit. And don't pass any new laws that "make a difference"; I haven't memorized all the old ones, yet.
-Ch
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Who came up with those inanities? Something to do with the presidential elections, I take it?
Not so much current events as just a rant against the misuse of the word impact--that ran on into a rant on the idea of legislators busily making laws, as if we need a bunch of news laws to impact our society, when we don't heed, let alone know, the exant set of laws, nor understand their impact, good or bad; but, the rant was a little incoherently put, as is this run-on sentence fragment.
I am not the only one who thinks impact is an empty cliche.
As quoted in Jeffrey Gitomer's Sales Caffeine (www.gitomer.com) Issue 333, March 25th, 2008, in her new book, The Voice of Authority, Dianna Booher pokes fun at cliches. Here is her comment on "impactful":
"-Impactful (newly coined term meaning packed full of potential to be hard-hitting--in the mind, heart, pocketbook, gut, mouth)"
See? A boxer can be impactful--sometimes even right in the gut or mouth.
-Archr
I would say that all three of you are out of your minds...but I won't since I don't know Dan and don't want to offend him
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