Banned Words

[A. Vine]

Wait, wait!  You need to add "paradigm" to the list!!!  I was sitting in a very
boring all-hands (all-thumbs?) meeting with some marketing person presenting
some sort of ideological, ethereal viewpoint on the product line to the
engineering staff (bad idea).  I turned to my coworker and said "If she says
'paradigm' one more time, I'm leaving."  2 seconds later she said it for the 3rd
(4th?) time in a 10 minute presentation.  Unfortunately I really couldn't leave,
but I did tune her out completely.  The word was meaningless, she could have
substituted "foobar"* and there would have been no difference.

* Please note that although the military community has the acronym "fubar", the
computing community uses "foobar".  Don't ask me why.

Andrea
--
Andrea Vine, avine at eng.sun.com
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
-- Dr. Dave Farber (father of SNOBOL and one of the creators of Token Ring)

Grant Barrett wrote:
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> From Lake Superior University at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/2000.html
>
> Following is the entirety of the 2000 Banished Words List
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