By Gina Caldanaro, Co-Chair of the Job Bank
Read Neologisms Part 1: The Fun With Words.
For those of you that are still baffled by last month's article, here is the key to all the neologisms used:
Read Neologisms Part 1: The Fun With Words.
For those of you that are still baffled by last month's article, here is the key to all the neologisms used:
- betamaxed
- When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition, as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market."
- blowing your buffer
- Losing your train of thought.
- carbon community
- The physical world (as opposed to the virtual). Also facetime, F2F, and meatspace.
- cobweb
- A Web site that never changes.
- cubeville
- A collection of cubicles in a large, open area.
- cyberspace
- The online world of computer networks.
- generica
- Fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions, as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was."
- going postal
- Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages.
- high dome
- Egghead, scientist, Ph.D.
- percussive maintenance
- The fine art of whacking a device to get it working.
- prairie-dogging
- In companies where everyone has a cubicle something happens and everyone pops up to look.
- salmon day
- Swimming upstream all day to get messed up in the end.
- siliwood
- The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV, and computers.
- square-headed boyfriend (girlfriend)
- Computer.
- treeware
- Manuals and documentation.
- world wide wait
- World Wide Web (WWW).
- yuppie food coupons
- Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.