I have seen this in several announcements from one company.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> The advent of computers and authoring tools made “computer-based training” possible.<\/p>\n The advent of the Web and more authoring tools made “Web-based training” possible.<\/p>\n These two phrases forced writers and speakers to look for a special phrase to distinguish non-computer-based training from computer-based training and Web-based training, but “non-computer-based training” was too long and somewhat negative.<\/p>\n This resulted in the creation of the phrase “instructor-led training”.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, this phrase has deteriorated in some quarters into “leader-led training”, which says nothing about who is doing the leading of the training.<\/p>\n For fun, I searched Google for each of the following (with the quotation marks, to avoid variations) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n This tells me that Web authors have used the meaningful<\/em> “instructor-led” versus the meaningless<\/em> “leader-led” by a ratio of 601-to-1, which is excellent.<\/p>\n However, this does not mean that “leader-led” as an adjective will not grow in popularity. I believe that the replacement of “instructor-led” with “leader-led” is consistent with my “Devolution toward Simpler” linguistic hypothesis.<\/p>\n It is simpler to write or say the two-syllable noun “leader” than it is to write or say the three-syllable noun “instructor”, and “leader” — not “instructor” — is alliterative with “led”.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I have seen this in several announcements from one company. Problem: The adjective “leader-led” is self-redundant and does not tell you who is doing the leading. Explanation: Courses offered by companies before the advent of computers were called “corporate training” or simply “training”. The advent of computers and authoring tools made “computer-based training” possible. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-devolution-toward-simpler","category-redundancies"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe adjective “leader-led” is self-redundant and does not tell you who is doing the leading.<\/p>\n
\nCourses offered by companies before the advent of computers were called “corporate training” or simply “training”.<\/p>\n\n
\n“Instructor-led training”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"