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Here's an interesting definition
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/buzzword

but I'm still left with questions...
If I say "tribe.net is a social network system" as buzzword example, how can I qualify tribe.net in a more meaningful way but want to remain as concise as possible while avoiding being vague? Is it even possible? If it's only to arrive to alt definitions that remain as problematic then saying that "social network system" is a buzzword is so benign that I can afford to concede that it is one and keep working with it, isn'it?

Or what? Make up fresh new buzzwords or use technical jargon?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 20 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

these big pictures are un-PC for the 56 users isn'it?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 20 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

56k right

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 20 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

no e-diss, but pimp my buzzword

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a little tangled in the syntax of your question, axully, but I think that conceptually speaking the only way to circumnavigate the 'buzzword' quagmire is to write a definition as if from a point in time before the buzzword existed.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

..doing the time-warp to create a fresh buzzword for a temporary mire free definition, til it gains in popularity then round round round we go.

I rather agree with your idea but like Socrates was an unbeliever-ish (he did listen to his "demon") who used to offer sacrifices to gods just for the sake of going with the flow, it might also be ok to embrace buzzwords.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

is buzzword a "buzzword". I think so.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

when i think of "buzzwords" i think of the overused terms of popular culture, through whose ubiquity they lose all meaning ("buzzing"). "WIRELESS" is a huge buzzword now. for a while we have been drudging through "EXTREME" (and its alternate spelling "XTREME").

not that i think it's a bad phenomenon -- i figure it's how popular culture carbon dates itself. you hear or read the phrase "POWER LUNCH" and you know you're in the 80s.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Archel to thread....

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Buzzwords needn't be just words, either. I remember that the phrase "Krispy Kreme are better than Dunkin Donuts" had a lot of currency a while back. Whether it's true or not (and who's gonna argue the relative merits of donuts) it seemed to be repeated vertbatim by a lot of people who I'm convinced had NOTHING to opine on the pastry front.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It is useful to define your terms, buzz-words or jargon or whatever.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew, I agree with what you said but I don't get the "lose all meaning" part, it's sounds to XRTEME imo. If you mention that you have a "WIRELESS" mouse I assume everybody will get the meaning of that : you have a mouse that can operate without a wire, so the loss of meaning is hardly significant there. Or are you saying that as words become ubiquitous some things just "goes without saying", like "COOKING" cold dead meat and stuff?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

isadora, yes but what if you don't have much room for long definitions?
Also, jargon is for ppl with a technical background so going that way would involve vulgarization.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS THREAD IS STUCK IN A PARADIGM.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post sebastien:

"wireless" can now apply to both laptop computers ("wireless network"/"wi-fi hotspot" blahblah), or to cellular phones ("AT&T Wireless"). Though it is descriptive, "wireless" doesn't actually refer to any shared specific piece or process of technology; it's more about bringing to bear the connotations of the word in marketing.

"wireless" --> "freedom" --> "rugged individualism" --> "american captialism" --> BUY BUY BUY.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

aha, there are degrees of vagueness and descriptivity so in certain cases we could as well talk about their "ADAPTABILITY"

x-post david, DO YOU THINK "ADAPTABILITY" IS A CONCEPT THAT COULD BRING A SOLUTION?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

MOST DEFINITELY, I LIKE YOUR THINKING, AND KEEP IN MIND I HAVE AN OPEN-DOOR POLICY

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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