@nmbr73
I may utilize this awesome advice - very much appreciated - it's de facto a game changer. Best Rgds!
@arcuscerebellumus8797
I know there are people who stick that word anywhere they can just to come off as sophisticated, but I think there's some original semantics in it, that makes it not only distinct from the word "use," but also quite useful (sorry) in rare occasions. I always thought of it like that: It's not about the outcome, but about context or use. Akin to "commodification," or "commodify," which means that something that wasn't ordinarily bought or sold gets subjected to the market -- "utilization," or "utilize," as a more general case for the same principal, means that something gets subjected to the purpose it wasn't meant to fulfil. "Use," on the other hand, doesn't imply any breakage of an existing concept. It also doesn't shy away from the hard truth: when someone says "I will use you" - sounds kinda rough (as it should), when they say "I will utilize your potential" - sounds like a load of bull, but at least it's less offensive. Kinda makes sense why they love it in corporate...
@br4hem_M4th
Using simple words is generally better, but sometimes it's necessary to vary your vocabulary if you've repeated the same word too often.
@K-oq7ue
I used to be of the same opinion, but to utilize can sometimes also mean to use up, as in a percentage of a total. Cf. "usage" vs "utilization". A distinction between the two is occasionally helpful.
@TheRich107
Ok, I get your feedback let's think about this and circle back around tomorrow to talk this through.
@kaishang6406
the one i dislike the most is "spearheadded". but a agree with you.
@TreeLuvBurdpu
We're regressing from the enlightenment to the endarkenment. The Dimming is occurring.
@AkimboOfficial
I think there is a cage difference, use implies you are using a new thing, utilise means you’re using a function or property of something that’s already there, but maybe in some new or different way. But obviously that’s more specific than “utilised react to build a front-end app”
@monarcas5502
The same happens in Portuguese. We in Brazil naturally say usar (to use) and when we want to be fancy we say utilizar (to utilize). Funny that in Portugal they usually say utilize and try to mock us Brazilians for using the “poor” utilize which is use
@TreeLuvBurdpu
I've always thought that. Sticks out like a sore thumb.
@amgomg2323
The most linkedin word ever, my ears are bleeding
@bryanvanpaemel79
For your information, in French we don’t use the verb « to use » (user) to mean use. « user » means to damage (by time or repeated usage). We rather use « utilize » (utiliser) which would be a nightmare from your perspective 😂. Don’t worry tho, we have our equivalent pretentious corporate type verb which is « usiter » which also means « to use » but is way fancier and only used in old literature or in stupid people’s mouth to sound educated 😉
@CallousCoder
Those recruiters (pimps) and HR (Karins) are just a single step above politicians when it comes to intelligence.
@LHCB6
They're different. But knowing people, they are probably being used the same way. Words have meaning... Had meaning? To put this in terms that your sarcastic self can understand and appreciate, it's like saying that you don't understand why people use types in TypeScript when they can just use any.
@ProfessorThock
Clarity beats puffiness
@2wr633
But i don't know what else to call a bunch of functions that make no sense but is used pretty much everywhere in my codebase other than "utility"
@ejovo
Hard disagree! Thanks for sharing thouhh
@jonasstrmgren7326
Not my first language, but to me, the words have different connotations. I'd agree that it'd be unnecessary to use them interchangeably, but I'd use "utilize" more as a synonym for "make use of". "Use x" feels more like a direct imperative, while "utilize x" sounds more like a suggestion to take advantage of potential benefit derrived from x... well, in my head at least.
@licriss
Just gonna start calling these people all "thought leaders" and they won't know its an insult
@davidrieger3160