From criticizing to providing feedback

Although we're still "giving/providing feedback" today, that's just starting to be replaced by its successor: "providing developmental feedback." (Note, again, another example of adding a positive adjective to a negative phrase.)

This pattern is more invidious than it seems to be at face value: big words often hide big deeds, and big deeds are more often than not bad deeds. One of the key weapons in fighting the laziness of thought (and all the problems that derive from this) is through clarity in language. (Random thoughts)