Doesn't it just make you want to shout out 'buzzword bingo'? On Feb 20, 2008 8:44 AM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My biggest - one of them at least, "axes to grind" - is the use of > "in-language," "jargon," bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one, > however, is the use of sports metaphors in diction. I have seen > politicians > speeches and marketing websites where a reader is subjected to paragraphs > of > nothing more than bad-metaphors and cliches strong together, one after > another, signifying (in the Lacanian sense) nothing whatsoever. I don't > want > to touch-base to enhance synergies while mitigating against > potentialities, > knock it out of the park, hit a home run, score a touchdown while standing > shoulder to shoulder with my team mates, or create any win-win situations > that leverage my core competencies. For those so inclined - or those > incapable of expressing themselves without the use of pretentious diction, > false analogies, verbal false limbs, or glittering generalities - > definitely read the classic Orwell - "Politics amd the English Language," > http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm > > And that is my "axe to grind" today :-) > > On Feb 19, 2008 11:02 PM, Anthony Hempell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my experience you can choose to describe your idea/concept/business > > case to the VP of Marketing using the jargon that gets you props on > > the IxDA list, or you can use the marketese vocabulary they are used > > to and makes them feel warm and fuzzy. > > > > Whatever gets the ball into the end zone, so to speak. > > > > > > On 19-Feb-08, at 7:34 PM, Christine Boese wrote: > > > > > > Is it really true traditional media can't deal with this radical > > > idea of > > > active creators talking back to the big media bosses, so we gotta > > > diminish > > > it by calling it by the old names, by defining it completely in > > > terms of > > > what we want these people to be, not what they are? > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > > > > -- > ~ will > > "No matter how beautiful, > no matter how cool your interface, > it would be better if there were less of it." > Alan Cooper > - > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > ------------------------------------------------------- > will evans > user experience architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
