Public service announcement

[triskellian]

Regularly means 'occurring at standard intervals'. Frequently means 'occurring often'. They are not synonyms.

I've just been on a work away day. 'Regular meetings' are only a cure for communication problems if they are also frequent, damnit.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

But so much more useful when your boss wants to organise regular unpleasant meetings :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're emphasising the to be regular. Meetings can be too frequent, but they can't be too regular. A meeting that occurs at a random time every day is useless, because no bugger would turn up to it.

Also: even regular, frequent meetings are not exactly the penicillin of communication problems.

[triskellian]

Yes, poor wording on my part; didn't mean to imply that frequent meetings alone cure anything. In fact it amazes me that anyone thinks they do ;-)

(Also, given that we have various part-timers working different patterns, too-regular does actually risk being exclusive.)

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Also, having regular meetings can help keep them frequent, as there is less excuse to put them off or 'forget' about arranging them.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

There's a story about a vicar meeting two members of his congregation at Christmas.
"You're not regular communicants, are you?" he says.
"Oh yes we are!" the couple reply indignantly. "We're here every Christmas!"