I never understood what was wrong with the term "loitering munition", but I suppose it doesn't sell the newspapers, or whatever the kids are buying these days.
Every sport has its own jargon. But it would be hard to top the descriptive term for someone missing an easy layup in basketball. "Blows the bunny" is hall-of-fame snortworthy, as they say.
I'm not following cryptocurrency technology these days, but I have to confess I like the term "proto-danksharding." Also "blob-carrying transactions" and "gas fluctuations" and "multidimensional fee market."
You, a person who doesn't like corporatese: I don't like the term “hard stop.”
Me, a project manager: Ok, no hard stops, then. This meeting will go ninety minutes over and we'll reconvene at 5:00 PM to continue. After breaking for the night—if we can—we'll pick it up the following morning. This meeting has become your only commitment. You live here now.
I was today years old when I learned the word "glitch" comes from Yiddish "glitshn", " to slip". It entered English in the early 1950s in reference to small voltage spikes in radio or TV components causing audio or visual artifacts.
I really like this scrolly visual explainer of generative AI terms like 'transformer', and it's a good overview of how machine learning models can understand your prompts and generate new sentences in response
One of my bosses likes to use the word “action” as a verb where one would use “do.” For example, “if there is anything left at the end of the day, I will action that tomorrow, first thing.”
🤨🧐 #jargon
For those who might not have read this post before, I think it's worth a good read in terms of providing a frame of reference for the often unpraised work of code janitors.
Honestly, before I joined this postgrad programme at Lancaster, I had no idea there were so many jobs I didn't want. I don't even know what a lot of them are, but the very title puts me off. I was once an "English Consultant". No I wasn't, I was a "Teacher". #Education#Jargon#PostGradLife
Have you ever shaven a yak? Or given them a perm? Did you start down a rabbit hole, just to find a new yak waiting for you? Have you been picking up the rakes in your office, or just treaded lightly around them? Have you had a chance to contribute diagonally to your organization or company?
People keep complaining about the phrase “circle back,” but I’m a project manager. My entire job is to keep circling back on things until either the project is complete or we’re all dead.