Talk:List of buzzwords

How about

• The information super highway

Sounds good to me. Duly added (as "Information superhighway"), along with "Information highway". Careax 20:59, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

• E-tailer

Matt13 21:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Strategic. The word is most often used by managers as a fancy way of saying "important" or "not a total waste of time", which is in fact what the word litterally means, although it sounds nicer. By definition, "strategic" means that something contributes to a strategy. A strategy is a means of achieving a desired result. Hence, "strategic" means something that contributes to a desired result, or objective. Therefore, something which is not strategic, would be something that does not help contribute to any desired objective, and hence is totaly useless. If something that is unstrategic is useless, it follows that "staregic" is simply a way of saying "not useless". As such, it is a meaningless word to attach to most phrases.

What anout business intelligence?

Hello, I think business intelligence fits buzzword's definition because it describes a non-intelligent (at least as intelligent as most of other common technologies) technique for data analysis. It is used in most of business/consultant current vocabulary to describe an old and elemental procedure.

Adding references for buzzwords

When adding a new word or phrase to one of the lists in this page, please add a reference to an independent external source identifying it as a buzzword (but not one like Answer.com, which just pulls verbatim from cached Wikipedia content). This will help get this page compliant with Wikipedia standards, and legitimize the word/phrase in question. If you don't know how to add a reference, just wrap the ref URL in "[ ]" after the word.

I've been adding references for existing words. At some point, after other contributors have received due warning, someone should probably go through and remove any words/phrases that don't have references. Cheers, Careax 21:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced buzzwords removed

I've removed all unsourced buzzwords from this article and placed them on Talk:List of buzzwords/Removed content. That way they can be recovered on a case-by-case basis once a valid external source or reference has been found. This was done to improve the quality of the list of buzzwords page, and prevent it from being targeted for future deletion.

Going forward, if you would like to add a new buzzword (or restore a previously deleted one) to the list, please only do so if you have a valid external source. Thanks.

--Careax 17:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Bolded?

Just a quick question. Why are some of the words on the list (especially those not internally linked) bolded? Jedibob5 (talk) 18:11, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

"disconnect"?

How, specifically, is "disconnect" used as a buzzword? It's a perfectly standard word. If it's used as a buzzword, it's the nature of the usage, rather than the word itself, that makes it a buzzwork. Similar comments apply to a number of other words in this list. Their buzzword usage, as opposed to their standard usage, needs to get explained. Michael Hardy (talk) 00:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

From its citation,

Disconnect, as in, "Oops, we put 4 billion in the wrong column. Darn. Must've been a disconnect."

by the president of McCall Media & Marketing, as published by Blethen Maine Newspapers. I'll try to explain it within the list without sounding ridiculous. –Pomte 03:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. But I'm still not sure I understand it. I suppose explaining these sorts of things without sounding ridiculous could be a challenge. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

"neurodiversity"

This appears to be a meaningless buzzword that's making its way across the wiki. If words like this get out of control, we'll have to start calling health "physiodiversity." Freckles becomes "dermadiversity," round and round we go. Opinions on adding neurodiversity to the list? 24.252.195.3 (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)